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MIT affiliates awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships
Afreen Siddiqi, Kathleen Thelen, and Vinod Vaikuntanathan, along with alumna Kate Manne, are appointed to the 2026 class of “trail-blazing fellows.”
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Testing sustainable agriculture in Barcelona
Students in a MISTI Global Classroom confronted the challenges of climate change, one farm and co-op visit at a time.
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Improving understanding with language
MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt investigates how the ways we communicate can shape our views of the world.
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Study: Immigrants help address the US eldercare shortage
Economists find that in metro areas with more immigration, nurses are spending more time with elderly patients.
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Six from MIT awarded 2026 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Fellowship honors contributions of immigrants to American society by awarding $90,000 in funding for graduate studies.
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In the media
Why the birthrate panic has a blind spot
Bloomberg
Mass immigration is not the silver bullet economists think it is
Financial Times
South Sea Bubble — the shoemaker’s son who sparked Britain’s first financial crisis
Financial Times
Meet the Boston doctor blending medicine and journalism amid Trump’s ‘public health blitzkrieg’
The Boston Globe
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