Mass High Tech Biobanking firm CryoXtract adds $3M from Allied Minds Boston capital investment firm Allied Minds Inc. has led a $3 million funding of CryoXtract Instruments LLC, a Virginia laboratory automation company focused on biobanking and formed through a collaboration between Harvard University and Northeastern University.
J.C. Penney investors cheer for Apple retail head as new CEO Shares of J.C. Penney flew off the shelves Tuesday as investors applauded the company’s coup in luring away Apple’s retail head to be its new CEO.
With Perkins Loan Program Set to Expire in 3 Years, College Presidents Work to Preserve It As college-access advocates work to preserve federal student-aid funds in a difficult budget climate, it’s natural that most of their attention is focused on Pell Grants. After all, that program provides low-income students with grants that don’t have to be repaid. But Joseph E. Aoun, the president of Northeastern University, is worried that the Perkins […]
Police hope to ID vehicles in Ind. student search Ten days after an Indiana University student vanished, police said Monday they plan to release enhanced security camera video in the hope the public can help identify the vehicles that drove through the area around the time the young woman was last seen.
Boston.com Turkey journal: Cheers and fears after a pivotal vote Less than 24 hours before Sunday night’s parliamentary elections, the Sultanahmet neighborhood was a campaign battleground. Flags strung between old brick buildings hung like spider webs of laundry, and motorcars blared campaign rants as minivans wound their way through narrow streets.
Open-access policy has risk: guns on campus Valedictorians applying to Harvard report not only breathtaking grades and SAT scores but also any criminal convictions or high school disciplinary violations. Such mandated disclosures are standard at hundreds of schools, including the University of Massachusetts and most other Massachusetts state colleges.
George Frazier’s duende THE ECHOES grow ever more faint as we move ever farther from their source. George Frazier has been gone for 37 years, and we don’t hear as much about him anymore.
J.J. Barea and Brian Cardinal: Unassuming Stars of the NBA Finals MIAMI – There are plenty of reasons to pull for the Dallas Mavericks in Game 6 of the 2011 NBA Finals, which tips off Sunday night, at 8 p.m. Eastern. They share the ball on offense, and despite the advancing age of their players, give maximum effort on defense. They have two veteran future Hall […]
Boston.com Downtown revitalization project frustrates struggling business owners in Amman AMMAN, Jordan — Bazar Al Mhirat is a modest antique shop located at the Wasat al Ballad market in downtown Amman. Walking by, customers are drawn in by chunky vintage rings with pigmented stones, necklaces fit for royalty, and a collection of dusty coins.
Nature News Tevatron teams clash over new physics Research groups at the Tevatron, the proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, have reached starkly different conclusions about a possible sighting of new particles beyond what is expected under the standard model of particle physics.
A college education is your best bet Investor Peter Thiel has generated attention by making some provocative claims about America’s colleges and universities. Thiel has labeled U.S. higher education “a bubble in the classic sense,” and believes that college degrees are “overvalued.”
Companies Spend on Equipment, Not Workers Companies that are looking for a good deal arenât seeing one in new workers.