Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Digest: Towson adds Jim McCarthy as men's basketball assistant

2013-06-13 00:00:00

Colleges Towson adds Jim McCarthy as men's basketball assistant Former Northeastern men's basketball assistant coach Jim McCarthy will join the Towson coaching staff, Tigers head coach Pat Skerry announced Wednesday. McCarthy, who helped guide the...

Bel Air High grad Xuan Bui wins local Jimmy Rane Foundation scholarship

2013-06-10 11:21:38

Bel Air High School graduate Xuan Bui said she was really excited to learn she was selected as a recipient of a Jimmy Rane Foundation scholarship. It felt like her hard work of finding and completing scholarship applications had paid off, especially...

Southwest, BWI aim for international flights

2013-06-08 12:08:00

Southwest Airlines and BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport are talking about adding overseas flights, perhaps as early as 2015. "International is going to grow at BWI, and it's going to grow with Southwest," said Paul Wiedefeld, the airport's executive...

Sommer, former Hopkins dean, to accept prize in Israel

2013-06-07 16:33:00

Alfred Sommer, a former Johns Hopkins University dean who discovered the importance of vitamin A in preventing child blindness, will accept an award Sunday in Israel honoring his contributions to preventive medicine. Sommer was chosen as a laureate of...

Forward strides for stroke survivors

2013-06-02 00:00:00

One night in 1999, a rash of frightening sensations hit Paul Titus all at once. His left arm went numb. His left eye began twitching. He couldn't speak without slurring. Unaware what the symptoms meant, he was slow to call for help. When his...

Frank B. Ober Jr., farmer

2013-05-29 13:56:47

Frank B. Ober Jr., a farmer and World War II veteran, died Sunday of heart failure at his Hope Hollow Farm. He was 94. The son of Frank B. Ober, a founding partner in the Baltimore law firm of what is now Ober|Kaler, and Margaret Rochester Ober, a...

NRA draws wrong conclusions from Boston

2013-05-21 09:49:00

In the days and weeks after the Boston Marathon bombings, the National Rifle Association has repeatedly stated that many Bostonians who did not possess guns probably wished that they had them in their homes during the tense "shelter in place" manhunt....

'Glee' recap: All or Nothing

2013-05-09 17:59:00

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the season finale of "Glee." In the opening scene, we find Brittany at MIT...yes, that MIT, where apparently she's some kind of genius. She wrote a bunch of numbers on the back of her math test. It's some kind of...

Hopkins closes science writing program, citing low selectivity

2013-05-24 18:25:00

Graduates of the Johns Hopkins University's master's program in science writing have explained the prospects of life on Mars, the promise of neuroscience research and the ethics of animal testing on the pages of Scientific American, Nature and Popular...

Helen Bruce Thomas, volunteer

2013-05-10 11:59:22

Helen Bruce Thomas, a retired nurse and homemaker, died April 23 at the Rogerson House assisted-living facility in Boston of unknown causes. The longtime resident of Phoenix, Baltimore County, was 89. Born Helen Whitridge Bruce in Baltimore, she was...

Campus police deserve respect

2013-04-28 12:30:00

Our nation has laid to rest another hero. Officer Sean Collier, police officer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was tragically killed in the events that led to the capture of the Boston Marathon bombers ("Slain MIT police officer remembered,"...

Boston student from Catonsville strives to regain normalcy after bombings

2013-04-26 16:53:00

Catonsville resident Caitlin Donnelly, a sophomore at Boston University, is among the thousands of Boston residents striving for life to return to normal less than two weeks after the Boston Marathon bombings. When the two bombs detonated near the...

This finale left us with so many questions for next season. Can Frank actually shape up so that he doesn't die of liver failure? Is Jimmy/Steve gone from Fiona's life forever, clearing the way for her and her cute new boss?

2013-05-05 08:23:00

Ernest Moniz, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was undersecretary at the Department of Energy during the Clinton administration.

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Research affiliate Nimit Dholakia works under a microscope with cell encapsulation materials for diabetes research at the Langer Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology September 14, 2010 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2013-05-01 17:21:44