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The Longyear Museum of Anthropology will celebrate the opening of the exhibition Weaving Identities: Native American Baskets in the Longyear Museum Collection with a reception on Thursday, November 13, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. The reception will feature a Q&A by 15 students who researched the baskets as a project for the course Native […]

This Veterans Day, 51�Թ��� is paying tribute to the men and women of America’s armed forces. The university wants to thank alumni, parents, and current students who have served their country — and the numerous alumni who work on behalf of veterans, helping them transition back to civilian life.

Ernie Vandeweghe ’49, one of the Mount Rushmore figures of 51�Թ��� athletics and the school’s first All-America basketball player, died Saturday. He was 86. Vandeweghe was named to All-America squads in 1947, 1948 and 1949 after setting 51�Թ��� scoring records for a game (35), season (397) and career (1,404). He was MVP as a freshman […]

From Polynesian Awareness week, to a University Theater production, to a Battle of the Bands, there are a wide variety of things to do around campus this week. This week, the ALANA Cultural Center, Native American Studies Department, Office of Residential Life, and Hawai’i Club have teamed up to host 51�Թ���’s first Polynesian Awareness Week. […]

Nancy Ries, professor of anthropology and peace and conflict studies, recently curated a collection of short essays in a series titled “Ukraine and Russia: The Agency of War” for Cultural Anthropology, the top journal in the field. The journal’s editors-in-chief invited Ries to edit this collection of essays that appeared in the journal’s “Hot Spots” […]

Music professor Zhou Tian’s work “Red Trees, Wrinkled Cliffs” will air on American Public Media’s Performance Today during the month of November.

An international collaboration of astronomers that includes Jeff Bary, 51�Թ��� associate professor of physics and astronomy, has published an article about the discovery of a “planet-forming lifeline” in a nearby triple-star system in the journal Nature. Using the recently commissioned Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) located in the Atacama desert in Chile, the group, led […]

When Jack Holland ‘13, Adriana Sperlea ‘14, and Sebastian Sangervasi ’14 first began studying zebrafish with Assistant Professor of Biology and Mathematics Ahmet Ay, they probably never thought they’d end up published in one of the country’s most well-known biology journals. But that’s exactly what happened.