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How evolving landscapes impacted First Peoples’ early migration patterns into Australia

Oct 19, 2024

New research led by the University of Sydney offers fresh understanding of the migration patterns of Australia and New Guinea’s First Peoples, and where they lived in the 40,000 years...

Three from MIT awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships

Oct 19, 2024

MIT faculty members Roger Levy, Tracy Slatyer, and Martin Wainwright are among 188 scientists, artists, and scholars awarded 2024 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Since its founding...

Revealed: face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave where species buried their dead

Oct 19, 2024

Credit: Netflix Professor Graeme Barker from the University of Cambridge, who leads the current Shanidar cave excavations. However, remains from Shanidar Cave still show signs of an empathetic species. Illustration...

Nanotech opens door to future of insulin medication

Oct 19, 2024

An international team, led by researchers from Australia, have developed a system using nanotechnology that could allow people with diabetes to take oral insulin in the future. The researchers say...

Remembering Chasity Nunez, a shining star at MIT Health

Oct 19, 2024

On March 5, the MIT community lost one of its shining stars when Chasity Nunez passed away. “Chas,” as her friends and colleagues called her, served as the patient safety...

NYU Prevails in Nearly 30-Year Lawsuit Over the Ownership of Villa La Pietra

Oct 19, 2024

The estate and the art collection were bequeathed to NYU by Sir Harold Acton at his death, in 1994. In line with Sir Harold’s wishes, NYU went on to develop...

Caroline Elkins, Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Historian, Receives the 2024 NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize

Oct 19, 2024

Harvard University Professor Caroline Elkins, author of Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya, has...

New technology promises a silver lining for Port Pirie: cleaning up marine environment and recovering valuable metals worth millions

Oct 19, 2024

01 May 2024New Australian technology could help recover up to $40 million worth of valuable metals from Port Pirie’s contaminated sites and help restore the local marine environment. UniSA Project...

Alison Badgett named director of the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center

Oct 19, 2024

Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate and Graduate Education Ian A. Waitz announced recently that Alison Badgett has been appointed the new associate dean and director of the Priscilla King Gray (PKG)...

MIT Emerging Talent opens pathways for underserved global learners

Oct 19, 2024

“Apart from being my colleagues on the Emerging Talent program, we are friends,” says Tuyizere, a learner from Rwanda. Together, the certificate and ReACT are now MIT Emerging Talent, a...