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Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is the flagship, primary teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School

Cheers Beacon Hill is a bar/restaurant located on Beacon Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, across from the Boston Public Garden. Founded in 1969 as the Bull & Finch Pub, the bar is best remembered internationally as the exterior of the bar seen in the hit NBC sitcom Cheers, which ran between 1982 and 1993.HistoryThe show used the Bull & Finch exterior for the series' establishing shots of the namesake bar Cheers. No interior shots were used, and the downstairs pub does not resemble the bar in any way. A slightly modernized replica of the set bar has been built on the ground floor.The Official Preppy Handbook published in 1980 described Quaffer's (the upstairs at the time) as "Clubby, library atmosphere, with the requisite backgammon tables. Private club, but flexible, especially for ladies." The trademark, filed in 1982 has since been canceled.In 1982 Boston magazine awarded the Bull & Finch the title of Boston’s best bar.On May 20, 1993, the night of Cheers series finale, there was a large party held outside of the bar to commemorate the event. Many people gathered outside the bar, and watched the finale on two large TV screens specially set up for the event. The cast of Cheers watched the finale inside the bar. On the episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that aired after the finale took place live at the party outside the bar, with many celebrities including sportscaster Bob Costas in the bar, Jay Leno walked into the bar and interviewed them. Later, Leno played many games with the Cheers cast inside the bar, and at the end of the show, the Cheers theme was played outside the bar.

The Edward A. Hatch Memorial Shell (commonly referred to as the "Hatch Shell") is an outdoor concert venue on the Charles River Esplanade in the Back Bay section of Boston, Massachusetts.The Hatch Shell is best known for hosting the Boston Pops Orchestra annually for the Boston Fourth of July celebration, but is also used for free concerts most weekends and many weeknights during the summer months. The grass pavilion in front of the stage has no permanent seating. There is a memorial nearby to Arthur Fiedler, first permanent conductor of the Pops.HistoryThe original, wooden shell was built in 1928 as a temporary venue for the Pops with expectations of construction of a permanent structure in the near future. It was first used for a concert on July 4, 1929, with Arthur Fiedler conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra. A second, temporary shell, made of metal, was built in 1934, but owing to sparse funding throughout the Great Depression, construction of a permanent Hatch Shell was delayed until 1939-1940. Today's permanent shell was designed by architect Richard J. Shaw, given by Maria Hatch in memory of her brother, and dedicated on July 2, 1940. In preparation for its 50th anniversary in 1991, it underwent significant renovation and repair along with modernization of its acoustics by Boston architecture firm Finegold Alexander. Bostonian Howard Brickman, a master craftsman specializing in wood floors, re-created the intricate interior paneling of the shell by hand.

The MIT Chapel is a non-denominational chapel designed by noted architect Eero Saarinen. It is located on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, next to Kresge Auditorium and Kresge Oval, which Saarinen also designed. Though a small building, the Chapel is often noted as a successful example of mid-Century modern architecture in the US. Saarinen also designed the landscaping surrounding all three.Leland M. Roth included the building in his History of American Architecture, using it to illustrate the contrast between Saarinen's approach and that of Mies van der Rohe . Roth said that "through the sheer manipulation of light and the its focus on a blazingly white marble altar block, Saarinen created a place of mystic quiet."From the outside, the chapel is a simple, windowless brick cylinder set inside a very shallow concrete moat. It is 50ft in diameter and 30ft high, and topped by an aluminum spire. The brick is supported by a series of low arches. Saarinen chose bricks that were rough and imperfect to create a textured effect. The whole is set in two groves of London Planetrees, with a long wall to the east, all designed by Saarinen. The wall and trees provide a uniform background for the chapel, and isolate the site from the noise and bustle of adjacent buildings.Within is an intimate space, stunning in its immediate visual impact. Windowless interior walls are undulating brick. Like a cascade of light, a full-height metal sculpture by Harry Bertoia glitters from the circular skylight down to a small, unadorned marble altar. Natural light filters upward from shallow slits in the walls catching rippling reflected light from the moat; this dim ambient light is complemented by artificial lighting. The chapel's curving spire and bell tower was designed by the sculptor Theodore Roszak and was added in 1956.

The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research is a cancer research center affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The Institute is one of eight National Cancer Institute-designated basic research centers in the United States.The Institute was launched in October 2007 with a $100 million grant from David H. Koch and the 180000sqft research facility opened in December 2010, replacing the MIT Center for Cancer Research (CCR). The Institute is affiliated with 25 MIT faculty members in both the Schools of Engineering and Science.

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Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Akamai's content delivery network is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms, responsible for serving between 15 and 30 percent of all web traffic. The company operates a network of servers around the world and rents capacity on these servers to customers who want their websites to work faster by distributing content from locations close to the user. Over the years its customers have included Apple, Facebook, Bing, Twitter, eBay, Google, LinkedIn and healthcare.gov. When a user navigates to the URL of an Akamai customer, their browser is redirected to one of Akamai's copies of the website.The company was founded in 1998 by Daniel M. Lewin (then a graduate student at MIT) and MIT applied mathematics professor Tom Leighton. Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. Leighton currently serves as Akamai's CEO.

Biogen, Inc. (previously known as Biogen Idec) is an American multinational biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializing in the discovery, development, and delivery of therapies for the treatment of neurodegenerative, hematologic, and autoimmune diseases to patients worldwide.HistoryBiogen was founded in 1978 in Geneva by several prominent biologists, including Kenneth Murray of the University of Edinburgh, Phillip Allen Sharp of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Walter Gilbert of Harvard (who served as CEO during the start-up phase), Heinz Schaller, University of Heidelberg and Charles Weissmann, University of Zurich (who contributed the first product interferon alpha). Gilbert and Sharp were subsequently honored with Nobel Prizes: Gilbert was recognized in 1980 with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in understanding DNA sequencing, while Sharp received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1993 for his discovery of split genes.

Copley is a light rail station on the MBTA Green Line subway, located in the Back Bay section of Boston, Massachusetts. Located in and named after Copley Square, the station has entrances and exits along Boylston Street and Dartmouth Street.Copley is fully handicapped accessible, following extensive station renovation completed in 2011. The renovation project was subject to a significant court case regarding the project's effects on the Old South Church.HistoryCopley Station was opened October 3, 1914, as part of the Boylston Street Subway, an extension of the original Tremont Street Subway. The ornate wrought-iron head house next to the Boston Public Library was designed by the firm Fox, Jenny & Gale. Originally Copley had light blue and white tile mosaic for the station name on the walls; however, none of these have survived.Renovation project and lawsuitAs a "key station" on the MBTA system, Copley was a priority for the MBTA to make handicapped accessible under the Light Rail Accessibility Program. A 1995 MBTA report identified possible elevator locations for the station, noting potential conflicts with the historic Old South Church and the Boston Public Library McKim Building, both of which are National Historic Landmarks. The MBTA finished design plans in 2002; representatives from the church and the library approved the plans. These plans placed the outbound elevator next to the church, and the inbound elevator next to the library steps.

The First Baptist Church is an historic American Baptist Churches USA congregation, established in 1665. It is one of the oldest Baptist churches in the United States. It first met secretly in members homes, and the doors of the first church were nailed shut by a decree from the Puritans. The church was forced to move to Noddle's Island. The church was forced to be disguised as a tavern and members traveled by water to worship. Rev. Dr. Stillman led the church in the North End for around 40 years. The church moved to Beacon Hill, where it was the tallest steeple in the city and nicknamed the "Church of the Holy Toothpick". After a slow demise under Rev. Dr. Rollin Heber Neale, the church briefly joined with the Shawmut Ave. Church, and the Warren Avenue Tabernacle, and merged and bought the current church in 1881, for $100,000.00. Since 1882 it has been located at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Clarendon Street in the Back Bay. The interior is a pending Boston Landmark.

The Charles Street Meeting House is an early-nineteenth-century historic church in Beacon Hill at 70 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts.The church has been used over its history by several Christian denominations, including Baptists, the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Unitarian Universalist. In the 1980s, it was renovated and adapted for use as office space, with the exterior restored and preserved. This project received awards from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the American Institute of Architects.The meeting house is a site on the National Park Service's Black Heritage Trail and is part of the Beacon Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

More than 1-in-3 people will have cancer in their lifetime. Even more eye opening is that tiny, microscopic cancers are developing in our bodies all the time, even before we are old. It is whether blood vessels near these dormant tumors are held in check or instead grow that determines if the cancer will expand and spread. Angiogenesis is the name of the natural process that blood vessels grow in the body. How important are these vessels? The healthy body maintains its blood vessels in a continuous state of balance. Cancer develops into a disease when abnormal cells overcome this balanced state and new blood vessels grow to feed cancers. But these blood vessels are also cancer's Achilles Heel. Cutting off a tumor’s blood supply starves it of oxygen and nutrients. Forty years of research has now resulted in modern drugs that effectively combat cancer through anti-angiogenesis. These drugs effectively starve growing cancers in a way totally different from toxic chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. Novel drugs based on this unique approach have been successfully tested in thousands of patients, been approved by the FDA and other drug agencies throughout the world and have helped increase the survival and quality of life of people living with cancer. The anti-angiogenesis approach has been proven to be an effective in fighting cancers. Targeting angiogenesis also provides an opportunity to prevent cancer. Certain foods contain natural molecules that can suppress abnormally growing blood vessels. What separates Eat to Beat is its focus on what you should add to your diet, rather than what to eliminate.

NEHI (Network for Excellence in Health Innovation) is a health policy institute focused on enabling innovation that will improve health care quality and lower health care costs. Working in partnership with members from across the health care system, NEHI brings an objective, collaborative and fresh voice to health policy. We combine the collective vision of our diverse membership and our independent, evidence-based research to move ideas into action.

The Veritas Forum invites students and faculty to ask life's hardest questions. With a commitment to courageous discourse we put the historic Christian faith in dialogue with other beliefs and invite participants from all backgrounds to pursue Truth together. Founded at Harvard in 1992, The Veritas Forum now partners on dialogues at over 130 leading universities in North America and Europe. Past presenters include Francis Collins, Tim Keller, N. T. Wright, Marilynne Robinson, Peter Singer, Nicholas Kristof, Cornel West, Condoleezza Rice, Steven Pinker, and Jean Bethke Elshtain.

EyeCanDoIt.org is a patient-friendly web resource about vision awareness for patients with diabetes.

The Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety (ACRES), a non-profit multi-sector alliance working in the public interest, brings together diverse stakeholders from across the clinical research enterprise and harnesses their expertise and investments to collaboratively build an open, integrated global system, based in principles of Accountable Research™. This system, employing integrated information technologies and interoperable standards, policies and practices across the global drug development enterprise, will enhance safety, quality and efficiency worldwide and industry-wide to benefit all stakeholders, especially patients.

Brazilian Connection to Knowledge, Innovation and Creativity Our mission is to connect Brazilian scientists, artists and entrepreneurs working abroad and to mobilize their talents to create a more prosperous, fair and sustainable Brazil.

TEL is dedicated to bringing communities out of poverty by driving the adoption of innovative, cost-effective and sustainable solutions that improve the lives at the bottom of the pyramid. We host a crowdsourced database of over 600 innovations in order to connect practical solutions to the people who need them most. Through our Project Accelerator service, we help NGOs and communities leverage appropriate technology solutions to maximize the impact of last-mile development.

The Collaborative’ s Board of Directors and Program Partners include national leaders in government, industry, academia, and environmental advocacy. Our work is non-partisan and framed by four organizing principles: • Over-dependence on fossil fuels has immediate, cumulative, and systemic impacts on human health, the environment, and national security. America must aggressively pursue cleaner, more sustainable and secure energy pathways now. • Offshore wind, an abundant renewable resource close to major load centers, is the best opportunity for coastal and Great Lakes regions to make a significant contribution to the nation’s energy portfolio. Taking on the short-term challenges associated with building this new clean energy industry will yield long-term energy, environmental and economic benefits. • Market-scale offshore wind development has transformative economic potential: industrial scale job creation, new manufacturing, advanced transmission, and revitalized maritime infrastructure. Realizing this potential requires a long-term, market-based, sustainable industrial development strategy. • Seizing the offshore wind opportunity calls for regional infrastructure and deployment approaches, supported by national clean energy policy and federal investment. Individual state action alone is not enough to build a cost-competitive domestic offshore wind industry.

OLE realizes that there is no ‘one size fits all’ answer when it comes to improving education. We are therefore committed to implementing customized learning solutions — and to providing local educators with the essential training to foster successful employment of these processes. In order to do this, we maintain a ‘catalogue’ of robust learning solutions that can be adapted to fit a wide variety of educational needs and contexts.

My mom, Margaret, was diagnosed in October, 2007 with Stage III Ovarian Cancer. Our family was devastated and had no idea about Ovarian Cancer. After learning more than we ever wanted to know, we realized my mom experienced all the symptoms – bloating, pelvic or abdominal pain, trouble eating or feeling full quickly, feeling the need to urinate urgently or often. After 11 months filled with doctors’ appointments, treatments, and side effects, my mom lost her battle on September 19, 2008. During the last three years of grieving, I had wanted to do something to honor my mother, but couldn’t decide what effort would be worthy of my mom’s name...until this fall. In September 2011, I launched a non-profit organization, Margaret’s Mission for Ovarian Cancer Awareness, to sponsor an initiative to obtain the first Ovarian Cancer Awareness specialty license plate in Massachusetts. In order for the Massachusetts Department of Motor Vehicles to begin manufacturing the Ovarian Cancer Awareness specialty license plate, we must obtain 750 pre-paid orders for the plate. Although the rate at which we are receiving applications is slow, we are dedicated to this effort and sure that we will reach this goal. The goal of this initiative is to raise awareness of Ovarian Cancer to educate women (and those who love them) about the symptoms and the importance of early detection, which can save lives. It is my hope that people will see this plate, Google it and learn all about this devastating disease to extend the lives of women, both young and old.

The Clean Energy Prize innovation and entrepreneurship competition awards over $400,000 in prizes to cutting-edge startups from universities across the US. We prepare tomorrow's clean energy leaders by advancing their relationships with academic, community, industry, and government players to help them meet the world’s pressing energy challenges. The CEP is generously sponsored by: Title Sponsor: NSTAR Gigawatt Sponsors: GE and GDF Suez Legal Sponsor: Morrison and Foerster Megawatt Sponsors: Factor(E) and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center

Based within MIT’s School of Engineering’s Engineering Systems Division, the AgeLab has assembled a multi-disciplinary team of researchers, business partners, universities, and the aging community to design, develop and deploy innovations that touch nearly all aspects of how we will live, work and play tomorrow.