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Mathematics, physics, and technology
  • Mathematics, physics, and technology
  • Research project
English March 2024

Langer’s research project envisions fellowships for four graduate students from Hong Kong, the USA, and the Middle East to do research in biomaterials for nanomedicine and tissue engineering and organize travel symposia to present results.

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Philosophy and Letters
  • Philosophy and Letters
  • Research project
English March 2024

Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach is the framework for a philosophical and practical exploration of animal rights. Selected scholars in global philosophy and law will contribute articles, present papers at a 2024-25 conference, and produce a final volume.

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Arts
  • Arts
  • Research project

Philip V. Bohlman

Borderlands of Sonic Encounter

English March 2024

In a project on sonic encounters in areas of global migration and conflict, young scholars’ research ranging from archival studies to fieldwork with migrant communities will create an interactive digital archive, Musical Topographies of the Borderland.

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Mathematics, physics, and technology
  • Mathematics, physics, and technology
  • Research project

Thibault Damour

Open Issues in Gravitation

English March 2024

Damour’s project will involve a group of international young scientists and high-level senior scientists in frontier research on some of the key theoretical challenges currently left open in the field of gravitation.

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Medicine
  • Medicine
  • Research project
English March 2024

Gordon’s project aims to finance research projects for young scientists, fostering career development and training programs for icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease, Bangladesh) scientists at Washington University.

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Medicine
  • Medicine
  • Forum
English March 2024

Jeffrey I. Gordon provides a panoramic synthesis of current human microbiome research and gives an account of how his lab’s work research on gut microbiome development and childhood undernutrition has evolved.

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Mathematics, physics, and technology
  • Mathematics, physics, and technology
  • Research project
English March 2024

Buonanno’s project is on the history of the two-body problem in General Relativity (approx. analytical solutions, interface with numerical relativity, analytical/numerical relativity methods in LIGO’s and Virgo’s 2015 discovery of gravitational waves).

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History
  • History
  • Research project
English March 2024

The Buccellatis’ Balzan Research Project Cybernetica Mesopotamica will use “digital discourse” to create model websites on their Urkesh excavations that will serve as a new epistemic system in parallel with printed publications.

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History
  • History
  • Forum
English March 2024

The Buccellatis’ finds from the excavation of Urkesh (4000 BCE) reveal the intricate relationship between artifacts, the dirt they are found in, and the digital tools employed to decipher their meaning.

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History
  • History
  • Research project
English March 2024

Friedländer’s Balzan Research Project, extends his work on the Holocaust, seeking to transform how scholars approach bystanders in genocide by analyzing egodocuments for a nuanced understanding.

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Mathematics, physics, and technology
  • Mathematics, physics, and technology
  • Forum
English March 2024

Buonanno and Damour present the field of gravitational-wave astronomy, opened in 2015, 100 years after Einstein’s theory of General  Relativity, when gravitational waves were first observed using laser interferometers.

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History
  • History
  • Forum
Italian March 2024

Friedländer reflects on his Holocaust experiences, suggesting that the lessons of history are often overlooked and emphasizing the need for continued exploration of historical evidence to uncover hidden or heretofore unrevealed perspectives.

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