Pitt receives $10 million to boost racial and ethnic diversity in STEM
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UVA leads university-based coalition to battle the opioid crisis
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Business and civic leader Mort Mandel awarded Tel Aviv University Honorary Doctorate
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Virginia Tech researchers lead breakthrough in quantum computing
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Facebook can help college students with lower confidence build relationships
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Study finds maternal race not a factor for children experiencing a ‘language gap’
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Highlights for the 2019 American Chemical Society national meeting in San Diego
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How big data algorithms shape opinions
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ASHG to launch Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, a new open access journal
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Perot Museum of Nature and Science to debut Origins: Fossils from the Cradle of Humankind
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