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How Likely are English Learners to Graduate from High School? New Study Shows It Depends on Race, Gender, and Income

Oct 19, 2024

English learners are, on average, less likely to graduate high school in four years than students who never needed to learn English in school. For instance, young women who ever...

McGill University’s Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences and Welcome Hall Mission celebrate Jim Lund Dental Clinic expansion

Oct 19, 2024

McGill University’s Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences and the Welcome Hall Mission celebrated the completion of the Jim Lund Dental Clinic expansion project, which started in October...

Teaching hospital creates new horizons for Whyalla’s future nurses and midwives

Oct 19, 2024

Designed as a teaching hospital, the Whyalla-based HHHS will relaunch on Friday 10 May, opening its doors and facilities to students and the clinical community. Purpose-built, the HHHS training space...

Francis Fan Lee, former professor and interdisciplinary speech processing inventor, dies

Oct 19, 2024

Francis Fan Lee ’50, SM ’51, PhD ’66, a former professor of MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, died on Jan. 12. Lee left China via steamship in...

There’s progress reported in Gaza truce talks, but Israel downplays chances of ending war with Hamas

Oct 19, 2024

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Saturday as Egyptian state media reported “noticeable progress” in cease-fire talks for Gaza. But Israel hasn’t sent a...

The Met Gala theme was both boring and out of touch

Oct 19, 2024

Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue7 Kylie Jenner wore an ivory gown custom-made by Oscar de la Renta to the 2024 Met Gala. Ballard’s short story “The Garden of Time.”...

New vaccine effective against coronaviruses that haven’t even emerged yet

Oct 19, 2024

This is a new approach to vaccine development called ‘proactive vaccinology’, where scientists build a vaccine before the disease-causing pathogen even emerges. Key to its effectiveness is that the specific...

Physicists arrange atoms in extremely close proximity

Oct 19, 2024

In many quantum simulators, scientists arrange atoms as close together as possible to explore exotic states of matter and build new quantum materials. Now, MIT physicists have developed a technique...

Hall of Fame honour for UniSA augmented reality researchers

Oct 19, 2024

06 May 2024Professor Mark BillinghurstTwo UniSA researchers have made history after being inducted into the Augmented World Expo (AWE) XR Hall of Fame for their groundbreaking work in augmented reality...

Three from MIT named 2024-25 Goldwater Scholars

Oct 19, 2024

MIT students Ben Lou, Srinath Mahankali, and Kenta Suzuki have been selected to receive Barry Goldwater Scholarships for the 2024-25 academic year. In addition to his research, Lou is currently...