The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Investment Management Company (MITIMCo) announced today that MIT’s unitized pool of endowment and other MIT funds generated an investment return of 8.9 percent during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, as measured using valuations received within one month of fiscal year end. At the end of the fiscal year, MIT’s…
DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP Although Maia Sandu was well ahead after the first round, her rival has the support of several other candidates Moldovans are going to the polls in the second round run-off of a presidential election seen as a choice between a European future or a return to Russian influence. Pro-European President Maia Sandu faces…
Kamala Harris took a break from serious campaigning to have some lighthearted fun … receiving raucous applause during the last “Saturday Night Live” before the election. The VP stopped by Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza for Saturday night’s cold open … appearing in the mirror across from Maya Rudolph — who has portrayed the…
The MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) is a project lead for one of two finalist missions recently selected for NASA’s new Probe Explorers program. Working with collaborators at the University of Maryland and Goddard Space Flight Research Center, the team will produce a one-year concept study to launch the Advanced X-ray…
A visibly angry Joel Embiid shouted at and eventually shoved a Philadelphia newspaper columnist in a locker room altercation after the struggling Philadelphia 76ers lost to the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday night. The NBA quickly said it has opened an investigation into the matter. Embiid took issue with Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Marcus Hayes, who mentioned…
[soundcloud url=” params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] In our new podcast series, Harvard Chan: This Week in Health, we’ll bring you top health headlines—from wellness tips to important global health trends. You’ll also hear insight from Harvard Chan experts. In this special edition of the podcast we speak with Curtis Huttenhower and explore what your microbiome is, why…
Play video content TMZSports.com Rob Gronkowski‘s girlfriend, Camille Kostek, says despite her and her man’s close connection with Tom Brady, she wasn’t given a heads up on Gisele Bündchen‘s new pregnancy … but she says she’s thrilled for model’s incoming bundle of joy nonetheless. TMZ Sports caught up with the S.I. Swimsuit star while she…
A polio vaccination campaign in north Gaza is expected to resume on Sunday, a day after the UN’s children’s agency, Unicef, said three children were injured in an attack “in the proximity” of a clinic. The agency did not say who was responsible but an official from Gaza’s civil defence agency told AFP news agency…
BEIJING, – China, which has been releasing a slew of measures to bolster its sagging population levels, recorded a drop in marriage registrations for the first nine months of 2024, according to official data from Ministry of Civil Affairs. Marriage registrations in China drop for the first nine months of 2024 For the first three…
A student who was suspended after he sprayed a foul-smelling substance during a campus demonstration in Columbia University has been awarded nearly $400,000 ( ₹3.3 crore) as settlement from the Ivy league college. The Israeli student who carried out the attack during a protest in support of Palestine this year was suspended from January to…
