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diff --git a/lms/templates/press.json b/lms/templates/press.json
index 2dc971489b..16942f06fb 100644
--- a/lms/templates/press.json
+++ b/lms/templates/press.json
@@ -1,4 +1,76 @@
[
+ {
+ "title": "Berkeley to Join the Free Online Learning Partnership EdX",
+ "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/education/berkeley-to-offer-free-online-classes-on-edx.html?_r=1",
+ "author": "Tamar Lewin",
+ "image": "nyt_logo_178x138.jpeg",
+ "deck": "",
+ "publication": "The New York Times",
+ "publish_date": "July 24, 2012"
+ },
+ {
+ "title": "UC Berkeley to join Harvard and MIT in online course offerings",
+ "url": "http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/07/23/university-california-berkeley-join-edx-joint-harvard-mit-venture-offer-online-courses/mKl47LI5BdBX0MMO2RHHwI/story.html",
+ "author": "Melissa M. Werthmann",
+ "image": "bostonglobe_logo_178x138.jpeg",
+ "deck": "",
+ "publication": "The Boston Globe",
+ "publish_date": "July 24, 2012"
+ },
+ {
+ "title": "UC Berkeley to offer free online classes through edX",
+ "url": "http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0725-berkeley-online-20120725,0,519697.story",
+ "author": "Larry Gordon",
+ "image": "latimes_logo_178x138.jpeg",
+ "deck": "EdX, founded by Harvard and MIT, will host two not-for-credit UC Berkeley courses this fall.",
+ "publication": "Los Angeles Times",
+ "publish_date": "July 2012"
+ },
+ {
+ "title": "Berkeley Joins 'EdX' Effort to Offer Free Open Courses",
+ "url": "http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/uc-berkeley-joins-edx-effort-to-offer-free-open-courses/37969",
+ "author": "Jeffrey R. Young",
+ "image": "chroniclehighered_logo_178x138.jpeg",
+ "deck": "",
+ "publication": "The Chronicle of Higher Education",
+ "publish_date": "July 24, 2012"
+ },
+ {
+ "title": "Berkeley Joins Harvard, MIT Offering Free Online Classes",
+ "url": "http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-24/berkeley-joins-harvard-mit-offering-free-online-classes.html",
+ "author": "Jeanna Smialek",
+ "image": "bloomberg_logo_178x138.jpeg",
+ "deck": "",
+ "publication": "Bloomberg",
+ "publish_date": "July 24, 2012"
+ },
+ {
+ "title": "Free online courses divide UC professors",
+ "url": "http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_21144592",
+ "author": "Matt Krupnick",
+ "image": "mercurynews_logo_178x138.jpeg",
+ "deck": "",
+ "publication": "Mercury News",
+ "publish_date": "July 24, 2012"
+ },
+ {
+ "title": "UC Berkeley joins edX",
+ "url": "http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/07/uc-berkeley-joins-edx/",
+ "author": "",
+ "image": "harvardgazette_logo_178x138.jpeg",
+ "deck": "UC Berkeley joins Harvard and MIT in not-for-profit online learning collaborative",
+ "publication": "Harvard Gazette",
+ "publish_date": "July 24, 2012"
+ },
+ {
+ "title": "Harvard, Extended",
+ "url": "http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/07/harvard-extended",
+ "author": "John Harvard's Journal",
+ "image": "harvardmagazine_logo_178x138.jpeg",
+ "deck": "",
+ "publication": "The Harvard Crimson",
+ "publish_date": "July-August 2012"
+ },
{
"title": "Review: MITx's Online Circuit Design and Analysis Course",
"url": "http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/review-mitxs-online-circuit-design-and-analysis-course",
@@ -116,6 +188,33 @@
"publication": "USA Today",
"publish_date": "May 15, 2012"
},
+ {
+ "title": "Harvard and MIT Launch Virtual Learning Initiative EdX",
+ "url": "http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/5/2/mit-edx-virtual-online/",
+ "author": "Hana N. Rouse and Justin C. Worland",
+ "image": "harvardcrimson_logo_178x138.jpeg",
+ "deck": "",
+ "publication": "The Harvard Crimson",
+ "publish_date": "May 4, 2012"
+ },
+ {
+ "title": "Educating Harvard, MIT - and the world",
+ "url": "http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/05/edx_press_conference/",
+ "author": "",
+ "image": "harvardgazette_logo_178x138.jpeg",
+ "deck": "EdX platform will enhance classroom experience, build on distance learning initiatives, leaders say",
+ "publication": "Harvard Gazette",
+ "publish_date": "May 2, 2012"
+ },
+ {
+ "title": "Remarks by Drew Gilpin Faust at announcement of edX",
+ "url": "http://www.harvard.edu/president/remarks-by-drew-gilpin-faust-announcement-edx",
+ "author": "",
+ "image": "harvarduniv_logo_178x138.jpeg",
+ "deck": "",
+ "publication": "Harvard University",
+ "publish_date": "May 2, 2012"
+ },
{
"title": "What is edX?",
"url": "http://mitne.ws/PgYhya",
diff --git a/lms/templates/static_templates/about.html b/lms/templates/static_templates/about.html
index 7772ca19d6..3466505540 100644
--- a/lms/templates/static_templates/about.html
+++ b/lms/templates/static_templates/about.html
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
About edX
-EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web. Based on a long history of collaboration and their shared educational missions, the founders are creating a new distance-learning experience. Anant Agarwal, former Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, serves as the first president of edX. Along with offering online courses, the institutions will use edX to research how students learn and how technology can transform learning—both on-campus and worldwide. EdX is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is governed by MIT and Harvard.
+EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web. Based on a long history of collaboration and their shared educational missions, the founders are creating a new online-learning experience with online courses that reflect their disciplinary breadth. Along with offering online courses, the institutions will use edX to research how students learn and how technology can transform learning–both on-campus and worldwide. Anant Agarwal, former Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, serves as the first president of edX. EdX's goals combine the desire to reach out to students of all ages, means, and nations, and to deliver these teachings from a faculty who reflect the diversity of its audience. EdX is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is governed by MIT and Harvard.