BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 8 -- Boston University issued the following news: * * * Crashes, technical problems, and legal scandals have become a nightmare for storied aerospace company * * * By Rich Barlow It's an embarrassing start to the new year when a wall panel blows off one of your airplanes mid-flight. But then Boeing's problems just kept piling up--lost wheels, a falling engine cover, an engine failure--and even extended beyond this world, when astronauts were left stuck on the In more PR

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, Aug. 8 (TNSres) -- Clark University issued the following news: * * * Can the endangered frosted elfin butterfly be saved? * * * By Brenna Moore Will Smith '25, M.S. '26, has always felt intertwined with nature. "It's fun to put names to things you're seeing, to point at a plant and say, 'That's Yarrow, that's a Quaking aspen tree,'" says Smith. "It makes me feel more connected to the world, knowing that I have a relation to the earth and so does everything else ar more PR

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, Aug. 8 -- Clark University issued the following news: * * * Membership strengthens support for first-generation students * * * By Melissa Hanson Clark is now a member of FirstGen Forward, an organization that partners with higher education institutions to help first-generation college students thrive. FirstGen Forward will assist the University in bolstering supports for first-gen students, says Naomi Ashley, assistant director of programming and first-generation s more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 8 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news on Aug. 7, 2024: Ropes & Gray clients Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals and Fauna Bio were named among Fierce Biotech's 2024 Fierce 15 (https://www.fiercebiotech.com/special-reports/introducing-fierce-biotechs-2024-fierce-15) honorees. The companies were selected by the publications editorial team from hundreds of nominees for breaking biotechnology barriers and defining the future of the industry. Gilgamesh is deve more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 8 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news on Aug. 7, 2024: A Ropes & Gray team partnered with non-profit legal services organization DC KinCare Alliance to file two additional federal lawsuits against the District of Columbia and the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) for violating the rights of multiple low-income D.C. children and their relative caregivers under federal and D.C. laws. The cases, J.R. et al. v. District of Columbia et al.  more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 8 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news on Aug. 7, 2024: Ropes & Gray represented G1 Therapeutics, Inc., a commercial-stage oncology company in a definitive merger agreement under which Pharmacosmos A/S, through its U.S. subsidiary Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc., will acquire G1 Therapeutics for a total equity value of approximately $405 million. The transaction was announced in an Aug. 7 press release (https://investor.g1therapeutics.com/news-rele more PR

MIAMI, Florida, Aug. 8 -- Greenberg Traurig, a law firm, issued the following news release: BOSTON - Aug. 7, 2024 - Andrew (A.J.) Tibbetts, a shareholder in global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP's Intellectual Property (IP) & Technology Practice, spoke at HealthTech Build's interactive workshop, "It's All About the Data: Building and Deploying AI in Healthcare (https://healthtechbuild.com/2024/07/09/its-all-about-the-data-building-and-deploying-ai-in-healthcare/)," held at the Massachusetts In more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 8 -- Boston University issued the following news: * * * Alum and costars Matt Damon and Casey Affleck rip through Boston, evading police and the mob * * * By Amy Laskowski Oscar-nominated actor Hong Chau lived in Boston as a BU undergrad, so she fully grasps how surreal it is to film a car chase through the Back Bay's narrow streets and on the pedestrian-only area of the Esplanade. But in her new buddy comedy, The Instigators, which opened in theaters August 1 a more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 8 -- Boston University issued the following news on Aug. 7, 2024: * * * Proposal aims to end strike with increased PhD stipends and childcare support * * * By Joel Brown Hoping to bring an end to the five-month-long strike by the Boston University Graduate Workers Union (BUGWU), the University's new leadership offered a contract proposal on Wednesday that includes a significant increase in stipend support for PhD students and additions to benefits, such as an inc more PR