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Boston University will join online course platform edX to create increased flexible learning options for students both on and off campus, according to a Tuesday press release.

A paper recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine and co-written by physicians and scientists at the University of Colorado School of Medicine finds that an important genetic risk factor for pulmonary fibrosis can be used to identify individuals at risk for this deadly lung disease.

The driver of the truck that struck and killed visiting MIT scientist Kanako Miura as she rode her bicycle near Kenmore Square... Students and staff at MIT gathered Sunday evening for the second performance of UP: The Umbrella Project at Jack Barry Field.

The controversies swirling around the Obama administration - from the IRS targeting of conservative groups to lingering questions about last year's terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya - are threatening to engulf Massachusetts' special U.S. Senate election.

The slippery language Karl and ABC News adopted in describing the emails has drawn fire from media ethicists and veteran journalists.

The Boston Marathon bombings last month hit the home of some of the world's greatest universities.

Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Also Included In: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP ; Public Health Article Date: 19 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT Massachusetts' healthcare reform didn't result in substantially more hospital use or higher costs, according to data presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes ... (more)

It isn’t the first country. It isn’t even the second country. And it’s not the first time she has been on her own.

When McDaniel College senior Ashley Hopkins graduates later this month, she will be able to tout the filmmaking skills she developed in college.

Per a report on USHR.com, associate head coach Mike Bavis has announced his resignation after 15 seasons with his alma mater Boston University Terriers.

Before the civil rights movement Alabama blacks faced discrimination on their way to getting law degrees and licenses to practice I and many others stand on the shoulders of giants who had to do those extraordinary things," - Anthony Joseph incoming Alabama State Bar president.

A new Boston University School of Medicine study has found that low-income and minority parents may be more receptive to vaccinating their daughters against Human Papillomavirus , while white, middle-class parents are more likely to defer the vaccination.

WASHINGTON: The United States is working with the Indian Government to stream line the latter's education visa, which is being considered as a major hindrance for American students wanting to go to the country for education, a top Obama Administration official has said.

American Heart Association Meeting Report - Abstract 105 - Embargoed until 3 p.m. CT/4 p.m. ET Thursday, May 16, 2013 BALTIMORE, May 16, 2013 Massachusetts' healthcare reform didn't result in substantially more hospital use or higher costs, according to data presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research ... (more)

Based on this impressive track record, the researchers maintain that these fishes should be the focus of future tests of key concepts in evolutionary ecology.

A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday.

Nicolas Guaman, an Ecuadorian citizen who is accused in the 2011 killing of Milford motorcyclist Matthew Denice, will have instruction from a Boston University law professor in the American legal system.

Columbia University is seeking to alter the 1920 charter of one of its graduate school fellowships which is still limited "to persons of the Caucasian race," though the fellowship has not been granted in years.

Eduardo Mora is likely the first student at Chaparral High School to receive both the Gates Millennium Scholarship and the Daniels Scholarship, both of which fully cover all college expenses at any school.

Gene-by-gene interaction is one important potential source of unexplained total heritability.