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Bad for Baseball?
America ready to peg Barry Bonds as 'Bad Negro," says WUSTL essayist Gerald Early
July 13,
2007 --
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While baseball purists may be poised to place a "steroid-fueled" asterisk next to Bond's name in the record books, to do so would be a mistake, one that follows an unfortunate pattern in the history of blacks in American sports, suggests Gerald Early, Ph.D., a noted essayist and book author who has written extensively on black culture and sports.
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Neandertal kin
Studies affirm relationship between early humans, Neandertals
June 14,
2007 --
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| Erik Trinkaus, WUSTL professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, holding a Neandertal skull, says the evidence is very convincing that Neandertals and early humans mixed. |
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For nearly a century, anthropologists have been debating the relationship of Neandertals to modern humans. Central to the debate is whether Neandertals contributed directly or indirectly to the ancestry of the early modern humans that succeeded them. As this discussion has intensified in the past decades, it has become the central research focus of Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Trinkaus has examined the earliest modern humans in Europe, including specimens in Romania, Czech Republic and France. Those specimens, in Trinkaus' opinion, have shown obvious Neandertal ancestry.
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From A to Z
Encyclopedia of Catholicism provides 'real portrait of Catholic Church'
May 14,
2007 --
Roman Catholicism, with its numerous saints, long history and deep traditions, can be difficult for the uninitiated to grasp. But a new book from an expert on the Catholic Church who teaches at Washington University in St. Louis should help to change that. The Encyclopedia of Catholicism, compiled by Frank K. Flinn, adjunct professor of religious studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, will be released May 20. More...
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'Great appreciation for deep research'
WUSTL alumnus receives Pulitzer Prize for history
April 17,
2007 -- The Pulitzer Prize for history was awarded Monday to Hank Klibanoff, a Washington University alumnus. Klibanoff, who graduated from Washington University in 1971 with a bachelor's degree in English in Arts & Sciences, and Gene Roberts won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation."
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Absence of blacks in the major leagues
Blacks aren't playing baseball simply because 'they don't want to,' says Gerald Early
April 12,
2007 --
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| Gerald Early's "Unpopular Answer to a Popular Question." |
As Major League Baseball prepares to celebrate the 60th anniversary on April 15 of Jackie Robinson's breaking of the "color barrier," there's been a groundswell of dire warnings about the diminishing ranks of African-Americans on big-league rosters. Some say young urban blacks are isolated from the game by racism, poverty and little access to facilities, but Gerald Early, Ph.D., a noted essayist and black culture expert at Washington University in St. Louis, has a much simpler explanation: "Black Americans don't play baseball because they don't want to." More...
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Tomb raiders
Medical scanners virtually unwrap Science Center's baby mummy
March 30,
2007 --
Researchers at the University and elsewhere recently helped the St. Louis Science Center probe the mysteries of a baby mummy. The mummy, part of the Science Center's collection of artifacts for two decades, went on permanent public display on March 15 in conjunction with the arrival of an IMAX film on mummies.
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Who are you?
Gerald Izenberg explores a formation of identity for March 21 Assembly Series
March 9,
2007 -- Gerald N. Izenberg, Ph.D., professor of history and co-director of the Literature and History Program, both in Arts & Sciences, will examine the complex notions of identity in a series of programs, beginning with the Assembly Series lecture, at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 21 in Graham Chapel. The Assembly Series talk is free and open to the public. Expanding on this theme, he will give a talk on "The Varieties of 'We': Collective Identities and their Conflicts," for the Center for the Humanities, in which currently is a Faculty Fellow. The event begins at noon, Friday, March 23 in McDonnell Hall, Room 162. The final event, provided for the Century Series of the University's Alumni & Development Programs, will be on "What, If Anything, Does Democracy Owe Identity?" at 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 26, in Lab Sciences 300.
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Getting a leg up
Anthropologist develops model to determine locomotor cost in animals
March 5,
2007 --
Scientists have known for years that the energy cost of walking and running is related primarily to the work done by muscles to lift and move the limbs. But how much energy does it actually take to get around? Does having longer legs really make a difference? Herman Pontzer, Ph.D., assistant professor of physical anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has developed a mathematical model for calculating energy costs for two and four-legged animals. His research was published in a recent issue of The Journal of Experimental Biology.
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Archaeologist Colin Renfrew explores how we become human
Colin Renfrew expands our understanding of cognitive archaeology in Assembly Series lecture
March 2,
2007 -- Eminent British archaeologist Lord Colin Renfrew to speak on cognitive archaeology and how we become human, at the Assembly Series, 4 p.m., March 22 in Graham Chapel.
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'Blend of meticulous, imaginative scholarship'
Pre-eminent African-American studies historian to serve as Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Feb. 21,
2007 -- Robin D.G. Kelley, Ph.D., one of the country's pre-eminent scholars in African-American history, will serve as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Washington University Feb. 28-March 1. During his visit, he will give two public talks. Kelley, who is professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC), is a leading scholar of the modern civil rights movement, jazz studies and African-American music and culture.
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