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Released: 20-Apr-2016 6:05 PM EDT
Baylor Historian Gives Thumbs-Up After Call with Treasury Officials About Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill
Baylor University

Moments after she got off the phone Wednesday with U.S. Treasury officials, Kimberly Kellison, Ph.D., chair and associate professor of Baylor University’s history department, said she was “excited and enthusiastic” about the announcement that abolitionist Harriet Tubman’s portrait will replace former President Andrew Jackson's on the front of the $20 bill.

Released: 20-Apr-2016 9:00 AM EDT
Ancient DNA Reveals Evolution of Giant Bears in the Americas
University of Adelaide

The work of University of Adelaide researchers is shedding new light on the evolution of what are believed to be the largest bears that ever walked the Earth.

Released: 19-Apr-2016 11:05 AM EDT
NYU’s History of Soviet Union Jews Project Supported by $2.3 Million Gift from Eugene and Zara Shvidler
New York University

NYU has received a $2.3 million gift from Eugene and Zara Shvidler to support “A Comprehensive History of the Jews of the Soviet Union,” a seven-year project led by researchers in NYU’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies.

Released: 14-Apr-2016 12:05 PM EDT
History Professor Lisa Leff Wins Major Jewish Literature Prize
American University

American University History Professor Lisa Leff is the recipient of the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.

Released: 12-Apr-2016 4:05 PM EDT
A Front Row Seat to History
University of California San Diego

While the stereotypical spring breakers throughout the United States flee to far-flung destinations to absorb sun and fun, UC San Diego student Sophie Silvestri experienced something far more breathtaking. “When we approached the plaza in Old Havana and saw an American flag hanging next to a Cuban flag, I will never forget that,” said the School of Global Policy and Strategy graduate student. Silvestri and 15 classmates traveled to Cuba March 18-25 as a conclusion to their winter quarter course “Cuba: Revolution and Reform,” taught by professor Richard Feinberg. A tradition in its fifth year, this trip couldn't have occurred at a better time: the students had a front-row seat to history in the making.

Released: 12-Apr-2016 2:05 PM EDT
The Pyrophilic Primate
University of Utah

Fire, a tool broadly used for cooking, constructing, hunting and even communicating, was arguably one of the earliest discoveries in human history. But when, how and why it came to be used is hotly debated among scientists. A new scenario crafted by University of Utah anthropologists proposes that human ancestors became dependent on fire as a result of Africa’s increasingly fire-prone environment 2-3 million years ago.

Released: 12-Apr-2016 1:05 PM EDT
1917 Astronomical Plate Has First-Ever Evidence of Exoplanetary System
Carnegie Institution for Science

You can never predict what treasure might be hiding in your own basement. We didn't know it a year ago, but it turns out that a 1917 image on an astronomical glass plate from our Carnegie Observatories' collection shows the first-ever evidence of a planetary system beyond our own Sun.

Released: 12-Apr-2016 1:05 PM EDT
Sexually Transmitted Infections, Peer Pressure May Have Turned Humans Into Monogamists
University of Waterloo

Prehistoric humans may have developed social norms that favour monogamy and punish polygamy thanks to the presence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and peer pressure, according to new research from the University of Waterloo in Canada.

   
Released: 8-Apr-2016 10:35 AM EDT
When Life Returned After a Volcanic Mass Extinction
University of Utah

In the April 6 issue of the journal Nature Communications, a new study used fossils and mercury isotopes from volcanic gas deposited in ancient proto-Pacific Ocean sediment deposits in Nevada to determine when life recovered following the end-Triassic mass extinction 201.5 million years ago.

Released: 6-Apr-2016 3:05 PM EDT
U.S. Presidents From the South More Likely to Use Force in Military Disputes
Yale University

The United States is more likely to use force in a military dispute when the president is a Southerner, according to a new study coauthored by a Yale political scientist.

Released: 5-Apr-2016 10:05 AM EDT
40-Million-Year-Old Fossils Indicate How Dinosaurs Grew From Hatchlings to Adults
Virginia Tech

Asilisaurus and living crocodilians grow similarly in that individuals of both species show marked differences in growth patterns.

Released: 5-Apr-2016 9:05 AM EDT
UF/IFAS Researcher’s Findings Resonate 30 Years Later
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

The journal Marine Resource Economics recognized James Anderson for his 1985 paper, “Market Interactions between Aquaculture and the Common-Property Commercial Fishery.” Most articles written 30 years ago have been forgotten, but some researchers are still looking at this one, Anderson said.

Released: 5-Apr-2016 8:05 AM EDT
New Book Is the First Comprehensive History of LBJ’s Great Society
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

In Prisoners of Hope: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism, historian Randall B. Woods presents the first comprehensive history of the Great Society, exploring both the breathtaking possibilities of visionary politics, as well as its limits.

30-Mar-2016 1:00 PM EDT
Architecture of the Sperm Whale Forehead Facilitates Ramming Combat
PeerJ

A new study addresses a controversial hypothesis regarding the potential ramming function of the sperm whale’s head. This hypothesis was instrumental in inspiring Herman Melville to write the novel Moby Dick but its mechanical feasibility had never been addressed.

Released: 4-Apr-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Queen’s University Microbiologists Unmask the Hannibal Route Enigma
Queen's University Belfast

Microbiologists based in the Institute for Global Food Security and School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast have recently released results that may have answered one of ancient history’s greatest enigmas: Where did Hannibal cross the Alps?

Released: 1-Apr-2016 4:05 PM EDT
Possible Viking Discovery by UAB Archaeologist Could Rewrite North American History
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Using satellite imaging, UAB archaeologist Sarah Parcak may have found evidence of the 2nd Norse settlement in North America at a site in Newfoundland.

   


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