NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Launching in February 2004 for students at Harvard University it quickly became a popular site and expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy Leagues, and Stanford University. Facebook has it’s roots in education.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

University of North Carolina diabetes specialist John Buse said he's shed 25 percent of his body weight, which "totally changed [his] life" after years of struggling with his weight. A Boston-based cardiologist who spoke to the NYT is one such closeted GLP-1 user. We look at each other and laugh and say, 'You, too?'"

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Founded in Philadelphia in 2007 as CityRyde and now headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Zagster helps property managers, hotels, businesses and universities across North America offer bike sharing programs to tenants, employees, guests and students.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

The Philadelphia Phillies offer behind-the-scenes tours and clinics for their female fans, while the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees offer fantasy camps that are geared to women. Callie Maddox is an associate professor of sport leadership and management at Miami University. Read the original article.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

In a study of over 70,000 people researchers from Boston University surveyed respondents about their optimism and compared it to their health data, over a 10 to 30 year period. Look to the future and be hopeful about itand take action to find solutions for the issues that are important to you. Optimism can lead to positive outcomes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2011

Maria is a historical musicologist who is pursuing her PhD at Boston University. Maria also noted that students like herself are finding more scholarly books on Bookshare which expands her ability to research. She studies secular songs and theater music from the English Baroque period of the 1600’s.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

City Spotlight: Boston Register for the free event here! Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify Boston has had a thriving tech startup ecosystem for a while, but things can change fast.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2023

I asked people from CMU, UC Berkeley, Meta, NVIDIA, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute the same six questions, covering […] © 2023 TechCrunch. In a bid to keep my robotics newsletter Actuator (subscribe here) up and running, however, I reached out to some of the biggest names in the industry. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This month KD Paine and I will be celebrating the launch of the book with events in Boston, Providence, NYC, Washington, DC, Palo Alto, San Francisco, and online. This is your chance to hear us talk about the ideas in the book, ask questions, share your story, and, of course purchase a copy of the book. Boston/Oct.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2021

To put Musk’s claims in context, remember that Boston Dynamics, a company which makes Atlas, the most advanced bipedal robot in the world, has never described its machines as anything but R&D. Atlas, says Boston Dynamics, is simply a way to push the cutting edge of robotics: it’s not even close to commercial deployment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

TechCrunch Early Stage is less than three weeks away from kicking off on April 20 in the Hub of the Universe – Boston. That’s just one of Boston’s nicknames. People like NFX’s James Currier, Techstars’ Kerty Levy, Harvard Innovation Labs’ Matt Segneri, SOSV’s Pae Wu and many more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

For Lu and his co-founders — fellow MIT professor Jim Collins, Boston University professor Wilson Wong and longtime synthetic biology operator Phillip Lee — Senti Bio is the culmination of decades of work in the field.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

While this is happening around the world, few startup hubs in the world are reveling in a greater boost to their ability to attract capital than Boston. However, data indicates that Boston’s startup activity in fundraising terms has reached a new, higher plateau, funneling record sums into the city’s upstart technology companies this year.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

September 2, 2021 The University of Massachusetts has announced a $50 million gift from alumni Robert J. ('84) 84) and Donna Manning ('85, '91) in support of efforts to increase access and opportunity across the five-campus university system. September 2, 2021 Nearly one in three women (31.1 Read more. .

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

That policy, announced in March, allowed hundreds of thousands of international students to remain in the US after COVID-19 drove their universities to move instruction online. A large number of universities, including Harvard, plan to offer all of their classes online during the upcoming semester.

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DataRobot

MARCH 25, 2020

Even a franchise as universally successful and iconic as the Boston Red Sox -- four World Series championships since 2004 paired with massive popularity off the field -- is not immune to these challenges. Baseball very much remains America’s national pastime, but Major League Baseball (MLB) has faced its share of challenges recently.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

On April 20th, TechCrunch will host TechCrunch Early Stage in Boston – an event designed to equip entrepreneurs will all the tools needed to build their unicorn startups. She has also worked on real estate technology initiatives at Apple, Fifth Wall Ventures, and Harvard University after starting her career in product design.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

When Vipul Patel lost half of his college credits while transferring from Florida Institute of Technology to Boston University, he began digging for answers. Patel soon stumbled upon equivalency tables , where universities track which courses from other institutions can be counted for credit during a transfer process.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

In her presentation at last week’s TechCrunch Early Stage event in Boston, SOSV general partner Pae Wu tossed out the tongue-in-cheek phrase “recovering academic” to describe founders in the firm’s IndieBio program. One can certainly appreciate why such founders sometimes attempt to keep a foot in each world.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Photo by: Visions of America/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Other cities such as Boston , San Francisco , and Oakland have passed laws barring public institutions from using facial recognition, but Portland is the first to prohibit private use.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Monica Wang is an associate professor of public health at Boston University. Its a public health crisis affecting all Americans. Acknowledging its harmful health effects is a first step. This article is republished from The Conversation , as a Research Brief (a short take on interesting academic work), under a Creative Commons license.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2020

The Boston Globe reports that American’s CEO Doug Parker has expressed similar concerns. Although more testing explains part of the increase, the percentage of positive tests is also trending upwards, according to data from John Hopkins University. “I

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2021

Researchers from Oregon State University have coaxed a bipedal robot off the couch to successfully complete the first ever robotic 5 kilometer outdoors run. But their bipedalism means they’re inherently less stable, especially compared to quadrupedal robots like those made by Boston Dynamics. Image: OSU.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Harvard University Students Running NYC Marathon in Boston for Hurricane Sandy | BostInno : On Sunday, Baker and Whitmore, both Harvard University seniors, did their own 26.2-mile mile marathon, here in Boston, while raising money to support those in need who were impacted by the furious October storm.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It’s no secret that funding is harder to come by in this economy, and that’s just one reason why we’re thrilled that Kerty Levy, managing director at Techstars, will share her expertise at TechCrunch Early Stage on April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts. What will the funding scene in these major metropolitan areas look like this year?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

The Northeast, and New England in particular, is known for its plethora of top colleges and universities. Get yourself to TechCrunch Early Stage , a summit for early and aspiring founders taking place in Boston on April 20, and accelerate your startup trajectory. TechCrunch Early Stage takes place on April 20, 2023, in Boston.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It is currently used by about 13,000 doctors at organizations including Changi General Hospital, National University Health System, National University Cancer Institute of Singapore, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore General Hospital, Parkway Radiology and the National Kidney Transplant Institute.

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Forum One

JULY 1, 2021

Ayomide Fatoye, Technical Team – Ayomide attends Texas A&M University majoring in General Engineering – Computer Science. Beatrice Mhando, Marketing Team – Beatrice attends Vanderbilt University majoring in Communications Studies & Computer Science. Feru is a Posse Foundation Leadership Scholarship recipient.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

The Boston-based company is bringing work-cell manufacturing to the cloud, with a SaaS solution aiming to improve manufacturing and the management thereof. Flexxbotics is a spin-out from Northeastern University by ways of its IDEA program. Flexxbotics just closed a $2.9

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The Verge

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Universal Kids. NBC Sports Boston. With a deal reached just days after it looked as though the channels could get dropped , YouTube TV users will still have access to a dozen-plus channels that include: NBC. Golf Channel. The Olympic Channel. USA Network. Plus, regional sports networks: NBC Sports Bay Area. NBC Sports California.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The Cassie robot captured the internet’s imagination ( ours included ) when it debuted in 2017 through a series of Oregon State University YouTube videos. It was one of the most exciting examples of robotics engineering since Boston Dynamics first made the scene. Commercial applications, however, are a different conversation entirely.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Speaking at TechCrunch Early Stage Boston last week, Matt Segneri, the executive director at the Harvard Innovation Labs , highlighted the importance of finding peers and mentors to go with you on your startup journey, and incubators and accelerators can help build those crucial relationships.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ll also be speaking with top VCs and the CEOs of Boston Dynamics, Sarcos, Locus Robotics, Fetch and more, along with demos from researchers and bleeding-edge startups like Agility. with Matthew Johnson-Roberson (Carnegie Mellon University) and Daniela Rus (CSAIL, MIT). with Kiva Allgood (Sarcos) and Robert Playter (Boston Dynamics).

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Boston Foundation. They work with colleges, universities, and other organizations that embrace equity in higher learning, with a focus on historically underserved populations, including nontraditional and incarcerated students. . The Boston Foundation. Areas served: Boston/Massachusetts. Arizona Community Foundation.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Arizona State University (ASU), for instance, needed an easier way for its students, faculty, and staff to communicate, share lesson plans, and gather feedback. ASU became the first university to adopt Slack campus-wide, launching it across five campuses and more than 200,000 users, including students, faculty, and administrators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Kalyan Keo , a member of the cloggers team , is at Syracuse University getting a degree in public administration. When I went to Cambodia last summer for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit (Cloggers), there were two Cambodian bloggers I didn't get a chance to see while in Phnom Penh. Both are in the US on Fulbright Scholarships.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Over the past ten years, universities such as Northwestern, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois, have prioritized recruiting innovative faculty into the life sciences ecosystem. The most recent startup, Pyxis Oncology , was spun out of the University of Chicago. where do you travel to in your mind?

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