WGBH

MIT requires every student to know how to swim. But why?

The legend on MIT’s campus goes that students once had to leap into the Charles River and swim across its dirty water without stopping to graduate. That was never true. But the institution does ...
WBUR

Lock it down or let it be: MIT students mull campus security after professor's killing, Brown shooting

As MIT resumed classes this week, security was top of mind for some students still reeling after last semester ended with one of its famed professors fatally shot off-campus days after a mass shooting ...
CNBC

BlackRock CEO says AI could increase wealth inequality—an economist explains how to make the tech 'a powerful ally'

The artificial intelligence revolution could create even greater wealth inequality, according to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. That's why Fink recommends global business and political leaders be proactive ...
WGBH

Spotting deepfakes: MIT Museum says ‘look again, look closely’

The MIT Museum's AI: Mind the Gap exhibit equips visitors with tools they can use to navigate AI in the real world. Facing a wall of brightly lit screens, Steven Schorr and his grandson Simeon Pernick ...
Los Angeles Times

How the Brown-MIT shootings unfolded: A brief encounter, two attacks and then a break

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A former Brown University student opened fire in a campus lecture hall on Dec. 13, killing two students and ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Investigators search for shooter in Brookline killing of MIT nuclear physicist Nuno F.G. Loureiro

QUESTIONS AND VERY FEW ANSWERS. YOU GOT THAT RIGHT. YOU KNOW, INVESTIGATORS SAID FROM THE START THIS DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE IN ANY WAY CONNECTED TO THE BROWN UNIVERSITY SHOOTING. BUT TONIGHT, SOURCES ...
CBS News

Motive sought after suspect in Brown University shooting, MIT professor's killing found dead, officials say

The suspect in the Dec. 13 mass shooting on the campus of Brown University was found dead by suicide Thursday night in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, authorities said. He has been identified ...
New York Post

Cops investigating whether Brown, MIT murders are connected — after days of unsuccessful manhunts

Investigators are probing potential ties between the deadly shooting at Brown University and the slaying of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, sources told The Post. No suspects have ...
The Providence Journal

Investigators looking into possible connection between Brown, MIT shootings

Investigators are looking at whether the mass shooting at Brown University Dec. 13 is linked to the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor two days later, law enforcement sources ...
USA Today

MIT professor found fatally shot at his home, prosecutors say

Authorities said on Dec. 16 that they launched a homicide investigation after a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old ...
PBS

An MIT professor was shot at home. Authorities say no suspect is in custody

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Authorities near Boston say they have no suspect in custody in the death of an MIT professor shot at his home. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, died at a local hospital on Tuesday ...
New York Post

MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro found shot dead in home in swanky Mass. neighborhood

A prominent nuclear science professor at MIT was shot and killed inside his home in a swanky Massachusetts neighborhood Monday night, with police mum on details of the tragic slaying. Nuno Loureiro, ...