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Prehistoric food globalization spanned three millennia

Women’s brains appear three years younger than men’s

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Vital issues facing industrialized nations offer opportunities for collaboration

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Atima Lui

“When you create something that never existed before, when you create an industry or a category that’s completely new, that is true innovation.”

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Atima Lui

BSBA ’12
Steven Frankel

“Mathematics is a community activity, not an individual one. I can’t just tell myself to sit in that seat and think. I can’t instruct myself to come up with something interesting out of the blue.”

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Steven Frankel

Assistant professor of mathematics
John Morris

Will we ever cure Alzheimer’s? Few drugs have been approved for treatment of this dementia, and none works very well. It has become one of the most intractable problems in medicine.

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John Morris

Director of the Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
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