Tag: MIT

• Thursday, July 9th 2020 - 09:13 UTC

  Harvard and MIT challenge in court Trump's administration limiting of foreign students visas

  

  US leading universities Harvard and MIT asked a court on Wednesday to block an order by President Donald Trump's administration threatening the visas of foreign students whose entire courses have moved online because of the coronavirus pandemic.

• Saturday, February 29th 2020 - 07:45 UTC

  Bolivia's October presidential election: no statistical support for claims of vote fraud

  

  The following article was published by The Washington Post, based on a report from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab political scientists John Curiel and Jack R Williams (*)

• Tuesday, October 15th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Nobel Economics Prize for work in fighting global poverty by three US-based economists

  

  US-based economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo from MIT, and Michael Kremer. Harvard University, won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for work in fighting global poverty that has helped millions of children by favoring practical steps over theory.

• Saturday, October 7th 2017 - 19:17 UTC

  US researchers win Physics Nobel Prize for gravitational waves detection

  

  Three U.S. researchers won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics for developing an observatory that made possible the detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time theorized by Albert Einstein 100 years ago, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.