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US varsities urge international students to return from winter break by Jan 20

The advisory comes in the wake of the talk about the mass deportation of illegal immigrants in the US by the incoming administration.

education

Published on Nov 30, 2024 12:08 PM IST

PTI | , Washington

MIT to offer free education to students with family income below $200,000

MIT recently announced that undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall.

University says this was possible due to the newly expanded financial aid.

education

Published on Nov 27, 2024 03:54 PM IST

ByHT Education Desk, New Delhi

Study in USA: Top 5 institutes in America for Architecture studies

If you are planning to pursue a career in Architecture abroad, here are top 5 institutions in the USA that you should consider.

Study in USA: Top 5 institutes in America as per THE Rankings 2025 to consider if planning to pursue a career in Architecture. (Photo credits: Unsplash)

education

Published on Nov 18, 2024 07:01 PM IST

ByHT Education Desk | Edited by Gaurav Sarma

THE World University Rankings 2025: Oxford holds on to the top spot, check list

University of Oxford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University have grabbed the top three spots in THE World University Rankings 2025

University of Oxford held on to the top spot in the world university rankings list for the ninth consecutive year (Unsplash)

education

Published on Oct 09, 2024 04:32 PM IST

ByHT Education Desk | Edited by Tisha Jacob, New Delhi

How to make your own hyper-realistic podcast with AI using Google Audio Overview

Google's AI-based Audio Overview feature has a male and female voice discussing about the uploaded content, even interrupting each other in a realistic fashion

Google's AI podcasting tool called Audio Overview was launched in this year's mid-September as a part of NotebookLM, a one year-old AI-powered research assistant, powered by the Google Gemini 1.5 AI model.(Representational Image/Unsplash)

business

Updated on Oct 05, 2024 09:00 PM IST

ByHT News Desk | Edited by Abhyjith K. Ashokan

MIT entrance exam paper from 1869 is viral, internet says it's too easy

A question paper from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's entrance exam in 1869 has gone viral on social media.

trending

Updated on Oct 02, 2024 02:16 PM IST

ByMuskaan Sharma

Rare 'mini moon' spotted: a 10-metre asteroid to orbit Earth briefly

The space rock — 2024 PT5 — was first spotted in August by astronomers at Complutense University of Madrid using a powerful telescope located in South Africa.

The mini moon will circle the globe for almost 57 days but won't complete a full orbit.

trending

Published on Sep 29, 2024 03:47 PM IST

PTI |

Exclusive: US colleges deem Asian domination in Computer Science ‘undesirable’

Founder of a leading educational consulting company reveals the true picture of classroom diversity, community college stigma, and related issues in the US.

world news

Published on May 21, 2024 03:59 AM IST

ByAshima Grover

Indian-origin family's death mystery solved in US

Police confirm Indian-origin family's death in their Dover mansion in Massachusetts, US was a murder-suicide

Indian couple found dead in their Dover mansion in Massachusetts, US(X/@nikethehat, RickKamal)

world news

Published on Jan 03, 2024 11:23 AM IST

ByHT News Desk

Majority of Americans believe Sally Kornbluth, Claudine Gay should resign: Poll

While some 56 percent of respondents said the presidents should resign, only 21 percent believe they should remain in their positions

Voters believe that M.I.T. president Sally Kornbluth and Harvard university president Claudine Gay must go, after failing to condemn the rising incidents of hatred on their university campuses (REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo, photo by Kevin Dietsch / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

world news

Published on Dec 22, 2023 04:20 PM IST

BySumanti Sen

Amid resignation calls, Harvard's Claudine Gay finds support from facul

Over 500 Harvard faculty members have rallied behind Dr. Gay, signing a petition urging resistance against political pressures.

(FILES) Dr. Claudine Gay, President of Harvard University, testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on December 05, 2023. The president of Harvard publicly apologized in an interview published on December 8, 2023, for remarks she made during a congressional hearing about anti-Semitism on US campuses amid the Israel-Hamas conflict. Claudine Gay, a professor who has led the prestigious US university since July 2023, was asked on December 5, 2023, whether calls for

world news

Published on Dec 12, 2023 01:03 AM IST

ByPrapti Upadhayay

Liz Magill resigns: ‘One down, two to go’ – What's next for Harvard president?

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigns amid scrutiny over testimony on antisemitism.

(FILES) Liz Magill, President of University of Pennsylvania, testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 5, 2023 in Washington, DC. he president of an Ivy League university stepped down December 9 in the wake of a firestorm of criticism after a congressional hearing on the rise in anti-Semitism on US campuses.
University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill

world news

Published on Dec 10, 2023 09:54 PM IST

ByPrapti Upadhayay

Harvard, Penn, MIT Heads Face Congress Over Campus Antisemitism

The battle raging on US college campuses over free speech and antisemitism is coming to Capitol Hill.

Alumni and donors, citing incidents of antisemitism, said the schools aren’t doing enough to create a safe learning environment for Jewish students.(Pixabay)

education

Updated on Dec 05, 2023 05:43 PM IST

Bloomberg |

U.S. News & World Report: Top 10 National Universities in US in 2024 | Full list

The ranking for the National Universities in the US was based on 19 key measures of academic quality says the 2024 U.S. News & World Report

The following are the Top 10 National Universities in the U.S. of the 439 featured universities as listed by the U.S. News & World Report.

education

Published on Nov 29, 2023 01:38 PM IST

ByHT Education Desk, New Delhi

THE World University Rankings 2024 by Subject: US, UK lead in all categories

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 by Subject were announced earlier today.

education

Updated on Oct 26, 2023 01:28 PM IST

ByHT Education Desk

Harvard’s $51 Billion fund beats Yale in hard year for endowments

Harvard University’s endowment earned an investment return of 2.9% during the latest fiscal year, beating rival Yale University and most other Ivy League peers.

Returns were “mildly negative” in venture capital/growth investments and only slightly positive in private equity, Harvard said in a financial report. (Bloomberg)

education

Updated on Oct 20, 2023 03:37 PM IST

Bloomberg |

Top ranking US colleges based on Wall Street Journal 2024

Wall Street Journal released a list of top-ranking US colleges for 2024 and many colleges have upped their positions from the last time.

Wall Street Journal released a list of top-ranking colleges and 400 best universities for the year 2024 in the US.

education

Published on Sep 16, 2023 11:31 PM IST

ByJahanvi Sharma

This device, invented by Delhi-born MIT student, helps you speak ‘without words’

Developed by Arnav Kapur, the system is called ‘AlterEgo.’

Arnav Kapur with his 'AlterEgo' device (Image courtesy: MIT)

technology

Published on Jul 21, 2023 03:47 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

Is age reversal possible? Researchers from Harvard, Maine, and MIT prove yes!

Researchers from Harvard, Maine, and MIT have made a breakthrough in age reversal. Read more about their discovery here!

Researchers from Harvard, Maine, and MIT have made a breakthrough in age reversal using a chemical method to reverse cellular aging. Their study identified six chemical combinations that rejuvenated aged cells within a week without causing unregulated cell growth. (Unsplash)

science

Published on Jul 16, 2023 11:06 PM IST

ByPrapti Upadhayay

At MIT, a ‘Top Gun: Maverick’-like experiment, but with autonomous aircraft

Researchers at the renowned institute used AI to carry out a mission on the lines of the one shown in the Tom Cruise-starrer summer 2022 blockbuster.

A visual representation of the experiment (Image courtesy: MIT)

science

Published on Jun 13, 2023 04:42 PM IST

ByHT News Desk, New Delhi

India can be a world leader in science

India has the scale of the economy, industry size, start-up ecosystem, market, and resources to be one of the top three in the world

Our research needs to focus on India and the world (Shutterstock)

opinion

Updated on May 28, 2023 08:17 PM IST

ByK VijayRaghavan, Varun Aggarwal

Twitter verification reappears, but some users don't know how it happened

Twitter removed the blue marks last week from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee. But the check marks returned for highly followed accounts over the weekend.

Twitter had roughly 400,000 verified users under the original blue-check system.(Twitter)

technology

Published on Apr 24, 2023 10:00 PM IST

AP |

MIT study on 'collapse of human society' may become reality, says a new research

The fresh study was conducted by Gaya Herrington, a researcher at KPMG International.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (File Photo/mit.edu)

world news

Published on Jul 26, 2021 05:40 PM IST

Byhindustantimes.com | Written by Karan Manral, New Delhi

Delhi-born MIT scholar’s AI-headset is one of Time’s 100 Best Inventions of 2020

Time described Arnav Kapur’s AlterEgo as something which “doesn’t read your thoughts, but it can enable you to communicate with your computer without touching a keyboard or opening your mouth”.

Kapur, a 25-year-old post-doctoral scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), invented the device called AlterEgo at the MIT Media Lab.(MIT website photo)

science

Updated on Nov 22, 2020 12:01 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Byhindustantimes.com | Edited by Meenakshi Ray

STOPCovid: Researchers develop new Covid-19 test that can be done in less than an hour

In a study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers showed that the new test detected 93% of the positive cases as determined by the conventional Covid-19 tests.

FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker uses a swab to test a man at a coronavirus disease (Covid-19) drive-in testing location in Houston, Texas, US (REUTERS/Adrees Latif/File Photo)

world news

Updated on Sep 18, 2020 05:18 PM IST

Boston | ByPress Trust of India | Posted by Karan Manral

US: Foreign students will confront more challenges

The administration has reportedly been planning to either substantially curtail or suspend a popular programme that allows international students to stay back on their student visa and work for one to three years, known as Optional Practical Training (OPT).

The students, a large percentage of whom are from India, did not fight back themselves. They couldn’t. Their colleges did for them, led by Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology(AP)

columns

Updated on Jul 17, 2020 07:41 PM IST

ByYashwant Raj

Nearly 25,000 new Covid-19 cases added in 24 hours, India’s tally soars past 7.67 lakh-mark

A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has projected that India will witness 2.87 lakh coronavirus cases per day by the end of winter 2021 in the absence of a Covid-19 vaccine or drug intervention.

Healthcare workers walk past rows of beds at a makeshift Covid-19 care centre at an indoor sports stadium in New Delhi, on Wednesday.(AP Photo)

india news

Updated on Jul 09, 2020 11:44 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Byhindustantimes.com | Edited by: Amit Chaturvedi

It is time to worry about deepfakes

Don’t believe everything you see or hear. Verify it first

“Deepfake” combines “deep learning” and “fake”. They are typically in the form of images, audio or videos of a person or people that have been superimposed on another to make it seem like someone said or did something they didn’t(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

editorials

Updated on Dec 13, 2019 07:48 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Indian-American academician Ankur Jain awarded Packard Foundation Fellowship

The Indian-American biologist and academician, Ankur Jain has discovered that certain RNAs can form aggregates, clumping together into membrane-less gels. This process, known as phase separation, has been widely studied in proteins, but not in RNA.

Ankur Jain is a Whitehead Institute Biomedical Research member and assistant professor of biology at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology.(Twitter/ @WhiteheadInst Photo)

nri news

Updated on Nov 20, 2019 05:01 PM IST

Houston | ByPress Trust of India

Abhijit Banerjee’s achievement much bigger: Sourav Ganguly

Banerjee, who is a teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday became the eighth Indian to get the award and was jointly chosen the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize winner along with Esther Duflo.

BCCI President-designate Sourav Ganguly(PTI)

cricket

Updated on Oct 16, 2019 09:19 AM IST

Kolkata | ByPTI

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The advisory comes in the wake of the talk about the mass deportation of illegal immigrants in the US by the incoming administration.

MIT recently announced that undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall.

If you are planning to pursue a career in Architecture abroad, here are top 5 institutions in the USA that you should consider.

University of Oxford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University have grabbed the top three spots in THE World University Rankings 2025

Google's AI-based Audio Overview feature has a male and female voice discussing about the uploaded content, even interrupting each other in a realistic fashion

A question paper from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's entrance exam in 1869 has gone viral on social media.

The space rock — 2024 PT5 — was first spotted in August by astronomers at Complutense University of Madrid using a powerful telescope located in South Africa.

Founder of a leading educational consulting company reveals the true picture of classroom diversity, community college stigma, and related issues in the US.

Police confirm Indian-origin family's death in their Dover mansion in Massachusetts, US was a murder-suicide

While some 56 percent of respondents said the presidents should resign, only 21 percent believe they should remain in their positions

Over 500 Harvard faculty members have rallied behind Dr. Gay, signing a petition urging resistance against political pressures.

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigns amid scrutiny over testimony on antisemitism.

The battle raging on US college campuses over free speech and antisemitism is coming to Capitol Hill.

The ranking for the National Universities in the US was based on 19 key measures of academic quality says the 2024 U.S. News & World Report

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 by Subject were announced earlier today.

Harvard University’s endowment earned an investment return of 2.9% during the latest fiscal year, beating rival Yale University and most other Ivy League peers.

Wall Street Journal released a list of top-ranking US colleges for 2024 and many colleges have upped their positions from the last time.

Developed by Arnav Kapur, the system is called ‘AlterEgo.’

Researchers from Harvard, Maine, and MIT have made a breakthrough in age reversal. Read more about their discovery here!

Researchers at the renowned institute used AI to carry out a mission on the lines of the one shown in the Tom Cruise-starrer summer 2022 blockbuster.

India has the scale of the economy, industry size, start-up ecosystem, market, and resources to be one of the top three in the world

Twitter removed the blue marks last week from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee. But the check marks returned for highly followed accounts over the weekend.

The fresh study was conducted by Gaya Herrington, a researcher at KPMG International.

Time described Arnav Kapur’s AlterEgo as something which “doesn’t read your thoughts, but it can enable you to communicate with your computer without touching a keyboard or opening your mouth”.

In a study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers showed that the new test detected 93% of the positive cases as determined by the conventional Covid-19 tests.

The administration has reportedly been planning to either substantially curtail or suspend a popular programme that allows international students to stay back on their student visa and work for one to three years, known as Optional Practical Training (OPT).

A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has projected that India will witness 2.87 lakh coronavirus cases per day by the end of winter 2021 in the absence of a Covid-19 vaccine or drug intervention.

Don’t believe everything you see or hear. Verify it first

The Indian-American biologist and academician, Ankur Jain has discovered that certain RNAs can form aggregates, clumping together into membrane-less gels. This process, known as phase separation, has been widely studied in proteins, but not in RNA.

Banerjee, who is a teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday became the eighth Indian to get the award and was jointly chosen the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize winner along with Esther Duflo.

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