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Classroom grants go to students from Mass., N.J. and Ohio WALTHAM, Mass., May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ohio 5th-grader Jonathon Crawford's clever way to alleviate long lunch lines garnered first place in the Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) MathMovesU(®) "Build it Better" contest. The New Madison Tri-Village Elementary School student received more than 4,500 votes from the MathMovesU(®) Facebook community for demonstrating problem-solving prowess to re-engineer the school's lunch line with an...

STRIKE AVERTED WORCESTER, Mass., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After hours of negotiations, the registered nurses of UMass Memorial Medical Center University Campus reached a tentative agreement with UMMMC management that provides the staffing improvements nurses sought to ensure their patients receive quality care at this level one trauma center. The settlement averts a strike, which was set to begin at 6 a.m. today. (Logo:...

Blue Horizon Wild Seafood Burgers Hook Consumers FRAMINGHAM, Mass., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- There's an ever-growing consumer awareness of the benefits of wild-caught seafood in terms of both healthfulness and sustainability. This grilling season, Blue Horizon Wild aims to hook those health and source-conscious shoppers and reel them in with their newly improved wild-caught Surf Burgers in updated packaging. The brand's grill-ready Surf Burgers are made from wild-caught Alaskan...

Award presented for the poster Contact-Free Under the Mattress Monitoring for Early Recognition of End-of-Life in Med/Surg Units WALTHAM, Massachusetts, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- EarlySense, the market leader in Proactive Patient Care Solutions(TM), announced today that the prize for 'Best Novel Idea' at the 8th Annual Rapid Response Systems and Medical Emergency Teams International Conference, hosted this year in the UK by the Royal College of Physicians, was awarded to a...

From Best Practices to Technology Needs, Summit Covers Day-to-Day Handling of 9-1-1 Calls to Major Incidents Including Sandy Hook Shootings and Boston Marathon Bombings FRAMINGHAM, Mass., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Rave Mobile Safety, the trusted software partner of campus and public safety, today announced that May 8-10 it hosted its Fourth Annual Smart911 Summit. The highly successful event featured professionals from leading 9-1-1 and emergency communications associations, as...

MOOCs span STEM, history, sociology, and Shakespeare WELLESLEY, Mass., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Wellesley College, the first liberal arts college to join the Harvard-MIT free online learning collaborative edX, announced its initial courses: Introduction to Human Evolution (Fall 2013, taught by Adam Van Arsdale); Was Alexander Great? The Life, Leadership, and Legacies of History's Greatest Warrior (Spring 2014, taught by Guy MacLean Rogers); Introduction to Global...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Flagship Ventures, a leading venture capital and venture creation firm focused on healthcare and sustainability, today announced the appointment of Stephane Bancel as a Senior Partner. In this role, Mr. Bancel will provide strategic counsel and support to portfolio companies. In addition to working closely with companies in the Flagship portfolio, Mr. Bancel also serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Moderna Therapeutics, a...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Moderna Therapeutics, the pioneering company developing messenger RNA therapeutics(TM), a revolutionary new treatment modality to enable the in vivo production of therapeutic proteins, announced today that John Reynders will join Moderna in early July as its first Chief Information Officer. Reynders is a proven leader in the design and implementation of information systems underlying all phases of drug development, from discovery to...

Boston Globe Annual Magazine Ranks Top Massachusetts Pubic Companies Woburn, MA (PRWEB) May 21, 2013 Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE), a leading provider of typefaces, technology and expertise for creative applications and consumer devices, has been listed at No. 28 on the “Globe 100” list of top-performing public companies in Massachusetts by The Boston Globe. This is the fifth time in as many years that Monotype has been eligible for the distinction and named to the...

Program geared to engineers, computer scientists currently working in the robotics field; first course to start in the fall of 2013 Worcester, Mass. (PRWEB) May 21, 2013 Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) today announced that it has launched an online, part-time master’s program in Robotics Engineering, making it among the first colleges in the country to offer such a program. The program will be primarily focused toward professionals such as engineers and computer scientists who are...