MIT Chooses Neurobiologist Susan Hockfield as President
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Currently provost at Yale, Hockfield will be the first woman and the first biologist to head the Institute.
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Harvard University was expected to appoint its first female president this weekend, signaling a new direction under the leadership of a career academic at the oldest U.S. institute of higher learning.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  -- Harvard University scientists have asked the university's ethical review board for permission to produce cloned human embryos for disease research, potentially becoming the first researchers in the nation to wade into a divisive area of study that has become a presidential campaign issue...
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Vikram Kumar is hardly your typical tech chief executive. He shares a two-bedroom apartment with a sister and a nephew and gets around town by bicycle or in a 20-year-old Mercedes Benz. The 28-year-old MIT graduate works days as a pathology resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital across the Charles River in Boston and only turns his energies at night to his business: improving rural health care in the developing world with handheld computer technology.
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University of Massachusetts trustees unanimously approved U.S. Rep. Martin Meehan to become chancellor of the system's Lowell campus on Wednesday.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology officials have tapped an outsider, David C. Schmittlein, deputy dean of the elite Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, to lead MIT's Sloan School of Management.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday defended his opposition to embryonic stem cell research despite its scientific promise to cure diseases like multiple sclerosis that afflicts his wife, Ann.
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An elite group of researchers wants to create a map of how your brain is wired. To do it, they've built a custom robot that peels 3-D brains like an apple, and pushes the resulting brain "tape" through an electron microscope.
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Julia Huston, a partner at the Boston intellectual-property law firm Bromberg &amp; Sunstein, has been named president of the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts. Huston, who cochairs the firm's trademark and copyright practice groups, took the helm of the 1,300-member organization this week. During her yearlong presidency, Huston said, she intends to support legislation that would protect women ...
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By Herald-Times, Bloomington, Ind.  Jun. 24--JEREMY PODANY NAMED TO IU INFORMATICS POST: Jeremy Podany has  been named director of career services at the Indiana University School of  Informatics.
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Former Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, who opposed embryonic stem cell research while on Beacon Hill, now says state lawmakers should support the research in order for the Bay State to keep up with California.
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On her first day as president-elect of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Susan Hockfield declared with sweeping ambition Thursday that she wants
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The natural world was the focus of much nanotechnology and energy research. Robots, meanwhile, were learning to mimic crabs and bees.
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A leading biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been named to the first endowed chair in marine sciences at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
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Mr. Hackerman was a noted chemist and a former president of both the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University.
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William Siri, a biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who helped lead the first American expedition to reach Mount Everest's summit, has died at age 85.
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Paul Allen's project to map a mouse's brain is complete, but it's only the beginning of what neuroscientists see as the future of brain science