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Would You Rather: Transfer and Apply

Catlin Tucker

The first and second blogs in this series focused on providing meaningful choices when students are acquiring information and making meaning. Application activities also enhance retention and mastery of information, making it more likely that students will retain and effectively use what they have learned in the future.

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Call for Applications: 2025-2026 Hellenic Research Fellowship Program

Society for Classical Studies

See below for full program information and application instructions. Currently numbering over 83,000 volumes and 500 linear feet of personal papers and institutional archives, it comprises a large circulating book collection, journal holdings, electronic resources, non-print media, rare books, archival materials, art, and artifacts.

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Call for Applications: 2024-2025 Hellenic Research Fellowship Program

Society for Classical Studies

See below for full program information and application instructions. Currently numbering over 80,000 volumes and 500 linear feet of personal papers and institutional archives, it comprises a large circulating book collection, journal holdings, electronic resources, non-print media, rare books, archival materials, art, and artifacts.

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Puberty in Ice Age Adolescents: Insights into Ancient Growth Patterns

Anthropology.net

” These biological indicators allowed the team to make informed conclusions about the physiological changes these individuals were experiencing as they transitioned from childhood to adulthood. Our research humanizes these teens in ways that go beyond just studying their tools or artifacts.” 1 Lewis, M.

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Culture and Personality with special emphasis on Margaret Mead

Anthropology for Beginners

The primary aim is to study human experience, facts and artifacts from a dual socio-cultural as well as psychological point of view. Basic idea: The study of culture and personality seeks to understand the growth and development of personal or social identity as it relates to the surrounding social environment (Barnouw 1963).

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Correlating Democracy and Per Capita Income: A Simple Introduction to an Old Finding

Steven V. Miller

There are any number of reasons to be skeptical about what Lipset (1959) argued, certainly with the benefit of hindsight and over 60 years of social science research. May replicating an old finding from around this time be at least tractable and informative, certainly of correlation’s properties and limitations.

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