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The impressive number of registrants, the motivation and excellent academic profiles of the applicants, led to an increase of more than 200 places in this important initiative.A total of 2,251 students from all over Chile applied between…

Whether it involves a musician in traditional dress singing about Tibetans in exile from their homeland or a group in jeans and a t-shirt rapping about a strong, modern China, hip hop music has flourished in popularity throughout East…

To Cameron Audras, viola is the instrument that sounds most human. “The viola has this rich, dark tonality. It’s really close to the range of the human voice,” he says. If Audras’ viola could speak, it would probably say something urgent…

Soon after starting at law firm Reed Smith, Ernie Ocampo became known as the quiet guy.He felt comfortable speaking in front of his peers, and he wasn’t shy. But at work, Ocampo acted the way many Filipino children are taught to behave:…

Changes in land use play an important role in nutrition, climate and biodiversity. Using a new set of maps made up of high-resolution satellite data and statistics, scientists from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and the…

In an international cooperation with partners from industry and research, physicists from the University of Vienna, together with Thorlabs, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the University of Kansas, have now…

University of California scientists have discovered genetic data that will help food crops like tomatoes and rice survive longer, more intense periods of drought on our warming planet.Over the course of the last decade, the research team…

Developing better catalysts is essential to make Power-to-X and the transition to a more sustainable society possible. Associate Professor Jakob Kibsgaard receives the Hartmann Foundation's Diploma Prize for his promising efforts in this…

This year’s senior English symposium had everything: Ev Delafose ‘21 talked about the power of fat, femme fashion. Ryan Chow ‘21 tackled identity in Asian American literature. Ruhi Buddharaju ’21 considered colorism in film. Kelsey Evans…

Genes are encoded in DNA, and closely related species will often have the same genes in the same order in the genome. However, over millions of years of evolution, this shared gene order gets lost as the DNA gets broken, repaired and…