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Call for Applications: Penn State Special Collections Library Research Grants

Society for Classical Studies

Call for Applications: Penn State Special Collections Library Research Grants kskordal Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:13 Image Applications are being accepted for research grants utilizing The Eberly Family Special Collections Library. Franklin African American History Research Award Thanks to a generous gift from Dr. V.P. Bluford papers.

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Learning From Snapshots of Lost Fossils

Sapiens

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Before Egbert went missing, scientists cast a copy of the child’s skull, allowing future researchers to study it. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field. 998-27-40/14628.1.30

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Underwater Caves Provide New Insights Into Sicily's Earliest Human Inhabitants

Anthropology.net

This research offers fresh perspectives on the expansion routes and adaptive behaviors of early human communities. Photo: Ilaria Patania) Ilaria Patania, an assistant professor of archaeology, emphasized that this research aims not just to identify the first individual settlers but to understand the formation of early communities on Sicily.

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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

The country’s next generation of leaders is pushing for racial equity, economic equality, disability justice and gender and sexual liberation; to succeed they will need the observational and analytical skills that can be developed by studying ideas, historical events, aesthetic works and cultural practices.

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Building virtual monuments to Black historical figures

The Hechinger Report

lessons on the history of Black people often focus on “trauma and tribulation,” said Erica Buddington, founder and CEO of Langston League, a firm that specializes in creating culturally responsive instructional materials. Buddington’s team wrote the curriculum and helped with the archive research that accompanies the Kinfolk app.

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