Higher Ed News

Monday, January 30, 2012

Fledgling Holyoke computer center gives $600,000 in grants
While it still has yet to have its own home built, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke is already giving out grants, announcing $600,000 seed grants going to seven research teams.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Mass. puts $14.6M into Fall River biomanufacturing plant
True to its word from a year ago, the state of Massachusetts has ponied up nearly $15 million for a new biomanufacturing plant tied to UMass Dartmouth.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

MIT teams with Wayra startup accelerator in Latin America
MIT is bringing Latin American tech startups to Cambridge, launching the Wayra Entrepreneurship Lab @ MIT, in partnership with communications giant Telefónica.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

MassBay, UMass, BU get notice for Alzheimer's research
MassBay Community College scientists, along with their collaborators at UMass-Lowell and Boston University, have discovered an early indicator for Alzheimer's disease.

Monday, January 23, 2012

MIT contestants to present climate-change economy ideas to UN, Congress
MIT Sloan School of Management's 2011 Climate CoLab contest winners will present their proposals on how the 21st century economy should evolve in light of climate-change risks to the United Nations and U.S. Congress.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

MIT Energy Lab founder David White dies
David Calvin White, a 40-year MIT faculty member and founding director of the MIT Energy Laboratory, died last week at the age of 89.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

MIT to build educational video games with $3M grant
The MIT Education Arcade plans to create a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) as a tool to help high school students learn math and biology. The game is funded by a $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

PlatformQ pulls in $2.4M in Series B funds
PlatformQ LLC, a provider of technology to allow organizations to hold virtual events online, has taken in $2.4 million in a Series B financing round, according to a regulatory filing.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

MIT's Hoffman elected to astronaut health board
Jeffrey Hoffman, a former astronaut and current aeronautics and astronautics professor at MIT, has been chosen to join the board of directors for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute where he will support research into astronaut health.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

MassBiologics nabs milestone payment from Merck
The University of Massachusetts Medical School licensing and research arm MassBiologics has won a milestone payment from Merck & Co. Inc. now that a therapy licensed to Merck has moved into Phase 3 clinical trials.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Matchbox gets $2.5M for iPad college admissions app
Cambridge startup Matchbox Inc. has landed $2.5 million in its initial funding round, and announce the first users of its iPad application for college applicant evaluation – UCLA and MIT.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Bridgewater State gets $2M gift from alums
Bridgewater State University announced Tuesday that it has received a $2 million gift from two married alumni – one of the largest private gifts ever given to a state university in Massachusetts, according to Bridgewater State.

Monday, December 12, 2011

WPI team gets $1.2M from NSF for diabetes care app
The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.2 million to a research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to make a smart phone application so people with advanced diabetes and foot ulcers can better manage their disease.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Ready Player One: Sharma named first MassDiGI director
The recently formed Massachusetts Digital Games Institute has officially named local technology veteran Monty Sharma as its first managing director.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Survey: Mass. academic life science salaries among nation's lowest
A survey by The Scientist magazine has found that while Massachusetts scientists enjoy some of the highest salaries in the country at biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, the state's academic salaries are among the worst.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Quanterix lands DHS deal for toxin test
Quanterix Corp. of Cambridge has won a contract from the Department of Homeland Security to develop a test for the botulinum toxin that would be sensitive enough to find a single molecule in a sample.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Olin College attracts grants for women in STEM research
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham has added $180,000 to its pool of undergraduate research awards for women, courtesy of a grant from the Clare Booth Luce Program of New York’s Henry Luce Foundation Inc.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Nature publisher pumps money into Relay Tech
The publisher of scientific journal Nature and science magazine Scientific American has made an unspecified strategic investment in Cambridge startup Relay Technology Management Inc.
Atlas Venture-backed FlashNotes relocating to Cambridge
FlashNotes, an online marketplace for college students to buy and sell their course notes, is moving from Ohio to Cambridge as it finalizes its first major funding round, led by Atlas Venture.

Friday, November 25, 2011

MIT discovery could lead to all-optical chips
Researchers at MIT outline a discovery in a scientific journal that the school says could make all-optical silicon chips possible, which could lead to much faster computing.