BOSTON — More than two-thirds of the 188 state lawmakers seeking re-election in the fall are on track to return to Beacon Hill without a challenge in a legislative election cycle marked by a lack of competition.
With 22 uncontested races in the 40-member Senate and 105 in the 160-member House, more than half of each body is already set to return for another two years, according to a News Service review of candidates who will be on the ballot for the 2016 elections.
CAMBRIDGE – Hugh Herr, a leading developer of bionic limbs, won a Spanish prize for medical research on Wednesday for his work improving the lives of people who have lost arms, hands, legs and feet.
Herr leads the Biomechatronic Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, where he developed "the most sophisticated ankle prostheses in the world," according to the jury that awarded the prize from the Princess of Asturias Foundation in Oviedo, Spain.
