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Published online 20 May 2009 | Nature 459, 306-307 (2009) | doi:10.1038/459306a
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Research from rubble
University returns to work in makeshift lecture halls and laboratories.
L'AQUILA, ITALY
Amid the rubble of the University of L'Aquila, Italy, which was mostly destroyed by a magnitude-6.3 earthquake on 6 April, a Nobel-prizewinning biologist arrived last week to offer his support.
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I grew up in L'Aquila as a teenager and was there again last year, surprised at how beautiful I found the town and its people to be ... and we had just been driving through Tuscany and Emilia. My brother went to kindergarten and primary school very near to the student dorm that collapsed. The photos, videos and conversations with my relatives do tug at the heart strings. I hope to visit, soon, and to provide some real help, rather than get in the way of psychological and physical reconstruction. The academics at UnivAQ with whom I have recently exchanged emails seem overhwlemingly relieved and invigorated that colleagues are thinking about them ... even from the other side of the world, as we are in Australia. Alison, thank you. Antonio Dottore antonio.dottore@adelaide.edu.au