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Spotlight: Mar 6, 2025
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A new study confirms the Antarctic ozone layer is healing as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances. “It shows we can actually solve environmental problems,” [Susan Solomon](https://www.ssolomongroup.mit.edu/susansolomon) says.
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Senior Markey Freudenburg-Puricelli and alumnae Abigail Schipper ’24 and Rachel Zhang ’21 have been selected as Gates Cambridge Scholars and will begin graduate studies this fall in the field of their choice at Cambridge University in the U.K.
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New research may help to protect cancer patients from the side effects of radiation therapy. Inspired by the tardigrade, a tiny organism that can withstand huge amounts of radiation, engineers developed a strategy for protecting healthy tissue from DNA damage.
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