Washington, DC - It’s National Volunteer Week and the American Red Cross honors the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who help the organization assist people in need.

Washington, DC - NASA will hold a media and public event at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 16, to share scientific findings and technical accomplishments of the agency’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft.

Washington, DC - Congressman Juan Vargas (CA-51) issued the following statement in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Week:

Cambridge, Massachusetts - In 2008, four students at the MIT Sloan School of Management developed a system for captioning online video that was far more efficient than traditional methods, which involve pausing a video frequently to write text and mark time codes.

Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Juan Vargas (CA-51) issued the following statement in honor of National Volunteer Week:

Cambridge, Massachusetts - When MIT senior Emma Nelson was teaching engineering classes in China in 2013, a male student remarked of her as an instructor, “I thought we were supposed to meet engineers, not women.” As she stared out at the 100 college students before her, Nelson noticed there was just one female face looking back at her.