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Looming budget cuts at Field concern curators
Pushing back against a cost-cutting plan to overhaul scientific research at the Field Museum, curators are meeting this afternoon with museum president Richard Lariviere. Several said they hope to share concerns about his planned restructuring of the...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning, Arts and Culture, Students
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Authorities release new photos in case of skull found in 2011
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsSedgwick County authorities hope you can help them identify a woman whose skull was found in 2011. The skull was found in a creek bed in the 10000 block of S. 343rd Street West. Since then, the skull has been inspected by an anthropology expert and...Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, FBI
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'Noble Savages' looks at one anthropologist's life of controversy
In 1998, just before Napoleon Chagnon retired from the University of California at Santa Barbara, he signed a contract to write a book about his life as an anthropologist among the Yanomamö people, who live in the forests of Venezuela and Brazil. It...
Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Teaching and Learning, Measles, Arts and Culture, Human Interest
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One summer, eight countries: Northwestern junior wins grant to circle globe
For RedEyeNorthwestern University junior Catherine Althaus didn't apply for her first passport until about a year ago, but the 21-year-old biological anthropology major will be putting it to good use in a few months when she travels to eight countries this summer....Tags: Financial Aid, Arts and Culture, Northwestern University, Field Museum of Natural History, Education
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NIU remembers mass shooting
Special to the TribuneThe pain of the loss persists, but the legacies of five Northern Illinois University students fatally shot on Valentine's Day in 2008 have an even greater resonance. A bell tolled Thursday as nearly 500 people solemnly stood on a wind-swept plaza at 3:...Tags: Illinois Governor, Pat Quinn, Steven Kazmierczak, Northern Illinois University, Science and Technology
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UMBC students use new media to document a dying industrial past
When Eddie Bartee started working at the Sparrows Point steel mill in 1955, about 35,000 men toiled at the eastern Baltimore County plant. Over the next four decades, he made a comfortable life for his wife and their six children as he moved through the...
Tags: Howard County, Customs and Tradition, Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning, University of Maryland Baltimore County
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Mexicans now have a bone to pick over relics of revered heroes
MEXICO CITY -- In the run-up to Mexico’s bicentennial celebration of independence from Spain, then-President Felipe Calderon oversaw an elaborate parade to escort the bones of the nation’s founding fathers from their resting place at Mexico...Tags: Mexico City, Felipe Calderon, Culture, Arts and Culture, Mexico
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Shaped from clay: The rapidly evolving pottery of Mata Ortiz, Mexico
MATA ORTIZ, Mexico —The place felt so familiar. The air was dry and warm and slightly smoky. Streets were unpaved, rutted, edged with weeds below ramshackle wooden fences. Swaybacked horses and muscled pickup trucks dueled for right of way on the...
Tags: Science and Technology, Fine Artists, Travel Alerts, Culture, Trips and Vacations
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Heart of Danville hires director
smojica@amnews.comThe Heart of Danville Main Street program started off the New Year with a new executive director. Bethany Rogers, a Danville native and the daughter of Buck and Jan Rogers, stepped into her new role Jan. 3. Brenda Willoughby, interim director, will...Tags: Justice System, Judges, Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010)
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Nemours, Rollins team to fight childhood obesity
It just may take a village to combat childhood obesity. That's why institutions as diverse as Nemours Children's Hospital, Rollins College, Winter Park Health Foundation, "Sesame Street" and nearly two dozen local child-care centers have joined to...
Tags: Weight, Health and Safety at School, Maitland, Teaching and Learning, Family
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Gov. Scott to students: Plan for future, seek skills to land good jobs in a competitive, global market that “will rapidly change”
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelGov. Rick Scott, busy with his “education listening tour” this week, has continued his school themed week by also penning letters for Florida's high seniors and college freshmen. The similar letters — which Central Florida high school... -
Arthur Jensen dies at 89; his views on race and IQ created a furor
Arthur Jensen, a UC Berkeley professor whose scholarly contributions to the field of psychological measurement were often overshadowed by the furor over his findings on race-based differences in intelligence, has died. He was 89. One of the most...
Tags: Medical Research, Parkinson's Disease, Science and Technology, Psychology, Teaching and Learning
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