Marilee Jones, a prominent crusader against the pressure on students to build their resumes for elite colleges, resigned yesterday as dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges have been enrolling record numbers of low-income students as campuses ...

Admission to MIT demands far more than strong marks or test scores. The institute looks for students who can thrive in an ...

Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was in Providence for two weeks before he opened fire on an auditorium of Brown University students studying for a final exam. Two days later, as investigators scrambled ...

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 ...

Update: Law enforcement officials say the suspect in the Brown University shooting also shot and killed MIT professor Nuno Loureiro. The suspect was found dead Thursday night. Read the latest here.

Nuno F.G. Loureiro, the professor, and the man suspected in his killing attended the same physics program in Portugal during the 1990s. By Pooja Salhotra Francesca Regalado Azam Ahmed and Sarah ...

BROOKLINE — As investigators continued working Wednesday in the fatal shooting of an acclaimed MIT professor, stunned colleagues at the university where he worked and neighbors on the quiet Brookline ...

Nuno FG Loureiro, 47, was shot multiple times at his home, and no details about a suspect or motive have been released The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is grieving after the “shocking” ...

Nuno Loureiro was a physicist who served as the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. He also held faculty appointments in MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and ...

Neighbors in the Boston-area community where MIT professor Nuno Louriero was shot to death inside his apartment building earlier this week said they were stunned by the mysterious killing. Loureiro ...

The shooting death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at his home near Boston is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said Tuesday. Nuno Loureiro, 47, from Portugal, was ...