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Beautiful Glass Pumpkins
Production of the hand-blown glass pumpkins occurs consistently throughout the year in order to produce 2,000 pumpkins for the annual September "pumpkin patch".
MIT Glass Pumpkin Patch
Every September since 2001, the MIT Glass Lab has hosted a sale of over 2,000 hand-blown glass pumpkins.
Understanding the Pumpkin
MIT junior Maxwell Yun admires the beauty of a deep blue glass pumpkin, priced at $245.
Volunteering at Pumpkin Patch
Sarah E. Malis spends her Saturday morning packaging delicate glass pumpkins with bubble wrap to keep the expensive art pieces safe.
Graduate Students at Pumpkin Patch
William B. Dahl and Melina P. Torres, PhD students of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Brandeis University, attended the event for the first time.
Conflicted between 2 Pumpkins
MIT first-year Shelley Choi struggles to decide which pumpkin she should purchase from the festival.
Harvard Police Assist in Responding to Anti-ICE Protesters at Amazon Office
Harvard University Police Department assisted Cambridge police officers as they arrested 12 protesters on trespassing charges at Amazon’s Kendall Square office Thursday evening.
UC Berkeley Files Patent Motions Against Harvard, MIT
The University of California, Berkeley alleged in documents submitted Tuesday to the US Patent and Trademark Office that the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT employed “deceit” to win patent rights to CRISPR-Cas9 in eukaryotic cells.
US Patent Office Will Intervene in CRISPR Dispute Between UC Berkeley and Harvard, MIT
In its declaration of interference, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO initiated proceedings to settle priority issues between 10 patent applications filed by UC Berkeley in 2018 and 13 patents previously awarded to the Broad Institute.
Harvard Medical School and MIT See Green With High Value Donation to Fund Joint Cannabis Research
The donation, given by Charles R. Broderick, is the largest independent donation ever made to fund biological study of cannabinoids on the brain and behavior.
Broad Institute Announces New Cancer Center to Develop Noninvasive Treatment Methods
The Broad Institute announced plans to launch the Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics after receiving a total endowment of $25 million, according to a Tuesday press release. The Center will work towards developing a new method of cancer diagnosis and treatment using blood samples.
5 Fascinating MIT Courses for Cross-Registration
Shatter the Harvard bubble this semester checking out five MIT courses which cover topics that you can't find at Harvard.
Harvard-Yale: Somehow, It Always Gets Weirder
Check out some of the weirdest happenings at The Game over the years and feel slightly validated that at least you (hopefully) didn’t strangle a papier-mâché bulldog before the game.
Rafael Reif
L. Rafael Reif, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speaks during Bacow's inauguration.
Extension School and MIT Develop New 'MicroMasters' Initiative
Huntington D. Lambert, dean of the Division of Continuing Education and Extension School, hailed the new program as a great addition to the School’s existing offerings.
Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Lisa Barsotti, a principal research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute, spoke about the dawn of gravitational wave astronomy in Science Center Hall C.
A Familiar Face, A Diverse Portfolio
Bacow, according to many of his colleagues at Tufts and MIT, is no stranger to challenges of diversity and inclusion—and his past actions might hint at how he will tackle these issues from Massachusetts Hall.
HKS, MIT Launch Joint International Studies Program
The fellowship is sponsored by $1.8 million in grants from the Charles Koch Foundation to each respective school.
City Council Greenlights Volpe Redevelopment
The Cambridge City Council voted Monday to approve a new housing development that will include 280 affordable units near Kendall Square.
Get Smart: The Berkman Klein Center Takes On Artificial Intelligence
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School will be working with the MIT Media Lab, the Knight Foundation, and others to start the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund, which will support interdisciplinary research on bias and ethics in AI.
Harvard-MIT Institute Wins Patent Battle for Gene-Editing Tech
The Broad Institute won the right to keep its patent for CRISPR, a groundbreaking gene-editing technology, in a ruling Wednesday.
EdX Courses Take Less Time Than On-Campus Ones, Report Says
Students using Harvard and MIT’s edX courses take significantly less time to complete the online programs than students enrolled in the equivalent on-campus classes do, a wide-ranging report on the virtual education platform found.
The Great Balloon Hack
Members of MIT’s Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity had, in classic MIT engineering fashion, crafted a technological masterpiece: a Freon-driven hydraulic balloon device that they wired into an empty circuit breaker under the field.