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Social impact startups have pitch night at CIC

Two startups, one pioneering burn care for patients and the other educating teens about menstruation, were picked as the winners at a recent social impact pitch event at Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC).  Read more Heat emergency not an anomaly Prior to the public pitch night, where the audience cast vote for their favorite presentations, the […]

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MIT grad students rally on commencement day, Harvard students picket

MIT graduate student workers rallied before the university’s commencement Thursday, while those at Harvard picketed outside Harvard Yard during graduation ceremonies. Read more Events this week in Camberville: Pride Patio Party, Celtic art, & Eve Plumb Over 100 people gathered outside MIT’s Lobby 7 at 77 Massachusetts Avenue to rally in support of graduate student […]

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Somerville, Cambridge incubators receive climate tech grants

Two startup accelerators in Cambridge and Somerville received close to $7 million in Mass Leads Act grants to expand their technology base, in a bid to provide more support to entrepreneurs working on mitigating climate change. Read more On the ballot 2026: Ewen-Campen and Gilligan-Corsetti vie for 27th Middlesex Greentown Labs, which bills itself as […]

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Clover Food Lab will close Thursday

The Cambridge-based fast-casual vegetarian chain Clover Food Lab will close Thursday after 17 years in business.  Read more Increasing housing supply won’t lower prices The company had said March 30 its shuttering was imminent if it did not find a buyer before June. Today it issued a statement saying it had not, and blamed inflation […]