Mass. colleges awarded grant for nanotech
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The state's bid for leadership in the emerging field of nanotechnology got a boost yesterday when the National Science Foundation awarded a $12.4 million five-year grant to a consortium, led by Northeastern University, to create an engineering center to develop tools and processes for building nanoscale devices.
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Cell phone maker's research partnership with university will focus primarily on nanotechnology.
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National Science Foundation grants $12.6 million to university scientists to study worms, viruses and the Net's ecology.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology overtook Yale University to record the best return last year among US schools with the 25 largest endowments, three years after bad bets on technology helped drain $1.4 billion from its fund.
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The Massachusetts Institute of  Technology will become by year's end the first U.S. university  to offer all of its roughly 1,800 courses free on the Internet,  a school official said on Friday.
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A group of Massachusetts high-tech chief executives, concerned the United States is falling behind global competitors in producing scientists and engineers, has begun an effort to boost the state's K-12 public education system by raising corporate money to support pilot schools and advanced placement programs.
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California's stem cell agency on Friday doled out nearly $45 million in research grants to about 20 state universities and nonprofit research laboratories, far exceeding the federal government's spending on the controversial work.
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Graduate students at the University of Toronto have boosted hopes for an effective diabetes treatment after growing insulin-producing tissue from the single cell of a mouse pancreas.
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City school officials are expected to announce a five (m) million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will help pay for the district&#39;s secondary school redesign plan, and create new partnerships with colleges in the area.
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By Valerie Strauss, Washington Post Staff Writer  Scientist Robert P.H. Chang of Northwestern University had no trouble persuading education officials in Mexico to introduce the burgeoning field of nanotechnology to schools there, but it's been a far tougher sell in the United States.
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In the clearest signal yet of nanotechnology&#39;s ascendancy in the realm of medicine, the National Cancer Institute will announce a major nano-research program today.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology's endowment fund posted investment gains of 22.1 percent in the year ended June 30, the school said yesterday, helping the endowment to grow $1.6 billion to $9.98 billion.
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The National Cancer Institute launches a five-year, $144 million project today to investigate using nanotechnology, the science of building devices on the atomic level, to fight cancer.
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The winner of a $1.2 million prize for his inventions in light and laser technology said Friday he will give away some of his money to promote research at universities and organizations that help developing countries.
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A research team has been awarded a $3.5 million federal grant to use a molecular detective technique to study and potentially improve the military&#39;s anthrax vaccine.
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Harvard University, in one of its largest technology transfer deals ever, is set to disclose today that it has licensed a portfolio of more than 50 nanotechnology patents to a Cambridge start-up that is working with manufacturers and the Pentagon to commercialize the technology.
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A  test capable of diagnosing the early signs of Alzheimer's disease has been developed in the US using nanotechnology.