LabCentral’s Golden Ticket prizes to founders unlock life sciences that lack in ‘Biodiversity’
LabCentral Ignite’s Golden Ticket program awards companies founded by women and people of color to help “solve for underrepresentation” in biotech industries.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Cambridge Science Festival to Honk! fest
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a weeklong Cambridge Science Festival, the Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands, 43rd Annual Oktoberfest, Grolier Poetry Book Shop 95th Anniversary Festival and much more.
A showy opening for MIT’s Engine at 750 Main, space where ‘tough tech’ gets down to business
The opening night was as glittering as could be for a headquarters for The Engine, MIT’s incubator for “tough tech” such as wastewater testing and cell engineering platforms. A red carpet was laid into 750 Main St.; a black Cadillac Escalade waited outside; and 300 guests toured inside.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville: Bob Moses MathTrail, ‘Emotive Land’ and more
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Bob Moses MathTrail Launch and Parade; “Emotive Land” augmented-reality performance and other dance debuts; a beery class on how to make a New York Times crossword; “Smoke This” Rib Fest; readings, concerts, theater and much more.
MIT Museum opens its doors for a resident ‘sneak peek’
For Cambridge residents who like to be first in line, the new MIT Museum offers a one-day peek of the expanded facility – and other activities – for neighbors only on Oct. 1.
Order asks for a conversation on restricting labs as they spread outside cramped Kendall Square
Representatives of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kendall Square Association and Chamber of Commerce fired warning shots responding to a proposal that could limit labs to the city’s industrial zones.
MIT Museum prepares for reopening in Kendall, going straight into reimagined Science Festival
The MIT Museum reopens Oct. 2 after a Covid lockdown that merged into an expected shutdown so it could relocate to a newly built home in Kendall Square.
Wastewater testing will add influenza to Covid, just as monkeypox and polio become concerns
Cambridge already tests its wastewater for Covid-19, and now the city is adding testing for influenza, but poliovirus and monkeypox testing is more complicated.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville from Moth storytelling to monarch butterflies
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s festivals of comedy, hip-hop and Somergloom, plenty of theater and dance, and everything from a Moth Story Slam to a monarch butterfly release celebration.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from bubbles to ‘Come to Pass,’ a hip-hop play
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s plenty of music (including new Sol Y Canto and Clem Snide) and theater (including the hip-hop musical “Come to Pass” and a production of “Eurydice”), and a return of the Evolution of Hip-Hop Festival, Floor Lords Breakdancing and MIT Swapfest, as well as bubbles and mini-horses.
