MIT NewsPaula Hammond named head of Department of Chemical EngineeringMIT NewsHammond succeeds Klavs Jensen, the Warren K. Lewis Professor of Chemical Engineering, who has been the department head in ChemE since 2007; Jensen will reengage full time with te …

Wall Street JournalEasy Access to Money Keeps US Oil PumpingWall Street JournalWall Street's generous supply of funds to U.S. oil drillers helped create the American energy boom. Now that same access to easy money is keeping them going, despite oil pri …

4-H Engineering Challenge: Competition will put students' STEM skills on displayThe Tand D.comSouth Carolina students interested in science and technology will have an opportunity this spring to showcase what they have learned in the classroom. The thi …

NY1South Bronx Middle-School Students Incorporate Software Engineering Into ...NY1At a middle school in the South Bronx, the curriculum is reading, writing, arithmetic - and software engineering. It's part of a new Department of Education program to be …

ForbesUPDATE 10-Oil dives 5 pct as worries about Iran talks trump YemenReutersNEW YORK, March 27 (Reuters) - Oil tumbled 5 percent on Friday, erasing the previous session's gains, as Yemen's conflict looked less likely to disrupt Middle East crude …

Business InsiderEU accuses Syrian man of buying IS oil for govt; he denies chargeReutersHe told Reuters by phone that the European Union had no evidence to back up the claim and should instead look for intermediaries he said were smuggling oil to Turkey on …

Business InsiderEU targets Syrian middleman it says bought oil from Islamic StateReuters"George Haswani provides support (for) and benefits from the regime through his role as a middleman in deals for the purchase of oil from ISIL (Islamic State) by t …