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Harvard, MIT Donate $500,000 to Support Cambridge Temporary Emergency Shelter
Harvard and MIT donated $500,000 to a temporary emergency shelter located at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School to house homeless residents, Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and City Manager Louis A. DePasquale said in a Monday press release.
Broad Institute Researchers Design COVID-19 Tests that Could Cost ‘Around Ten Dollars’
Researchers at the Broad Institute are improving and validating a COVID-19 detection protocol that could potentially take less than an hour and cost around ten dollars per test.
Harvard, MIT, Industry Leaders to Create Center for Innovation and Manufacturing Medicines
The center, which is estimated to cost $50 million dollars, will be an independent non-profit located in the Greater Boston area. The board of directors of the new center includes leaders from Harvard, MIT, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, and GE Healthcare Life Sciences.
Harvard, MIT Researchers Develop New Gene Editing Technology
A team of researchers from the Broad Institute led by Chemistry and Chemical Biology professor David R. Liu ’94 developed a novel gene-editing technique called “prime editing.”
Media Lab 1
"Reimagine This Place", an event organized by the MIT Media Lab students and staff, is an art-based fundraiser in response to the recent revelations of MIT’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein that attempts to "reimagine this place," referring to both MIT and the larger world.
Media Lab 2
Posters represent the attendees' visions for MIT's future. They will be hung around the MIT Media Lab and MIT's campus.
Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded to Harvard Professor Michael Kremer
Economics Professor Michael Kremer ’85 won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences along with two MIT professors for their work on developing an experimental methodology for alleviating poverty around the world.
Volunteering at Pumpkin Patch
Sarah E. Malis spends her Saturday morning packaging delicate glass pumpkins with bubble wrap to keep the expensive art pieces safe.
Beautiful Glass Pumpkins
Production of the hand-blown glass pumpkins occurs consistently throughout the year in order to produce 2,000 pumpkins for the annual September "pumpkin patch".
Understanding the Pumpkin
MIT junior Maxwell Yun admires the beauty of a deep blue glass pumpkin, priced at $245.
Conflicted between 2 Pumpkins
MIT first-year Shelley Choi struggles to decide which pumpkin she should purchase from the festival.
MIT Glass Pumpkin Patch
Every September since 2001, the MIT Glass Lab has hosted a sale of over 2,000 hand-blown glass pumpkins.
Graduate Students at Pumpkin Patch
William B. Dahl and Melina P. Torres, PhD students of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Brandeis University, attended the event for the first time.
Harvard Police Assist in Responding to Anti-ICE Protesters at Amazon Office
Harvard University Police Department assisted Cambridge police officers as they arrested 12 protesters on trespassing charges at Amazon’s Kendall Square office Thursday evening.
UC Berkeley Files Patent Motions Against Harvard, MIT
The University of California, Berkeley alleged in documents submitted Tuesday to the US Patent and Trademark Office that the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT employed “deceit” to win patent rights to CRISPR-Cas9 in eukaryotic cells.
