PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 20 -- The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology issued the following news release on April 19, 2024: In advance of the official holiday, the Penn Museum, in collaboration with Forum Philly, will host an inaugural Juneteenth Festival on Saturday, June 15, 2024 from 10:00 am- 4:00 pm. Admission is free for everyone. The all-day family-friendly celebration will commemorate the importance of June 19, 1865, the day that marks the official  more

SAN MARCOS, Texas, April 20 (TNSres) -- Texas State University issued the following news release: Texas State University is gearing up to host the Christmas Mountains Research Symposium, an annual West Texas gathering focused on the ecology, geology, culture, and history of the Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem. The tenth edition of the symposium is scheduled for May 19-21 at Terlingua Ranch Lodge, which neighbors Big Bend National Park. The symposium highlights research by students and faculty from  more

SANTA CRUZ, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: By Mike Pena and Allison Arteaga Soergel Three UC Santa Cruz faculty members have been named 2023 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world's largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals. They are Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, emerita distinguished research professor of anthropology; longtime  more

NORMAN, Oklahoma, April 19 -- The University of Oklahoma issued the following news release: Two researchers from the University of Oklahoma have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Bonnie Pitblado, Ph.D., and Jeffrey Kelly, Ph.D., are part of the 2023 class of fellows to the world's largest scientific society. "Dr. Pitblado and Dr. Kelly's induction as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science underscores their remarkable cont  more

BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 19 (TNSres) -- Free University of Brussels-VUB issued the following news release: Mughr el-Hamamah, meaning "pigeon cave" in Arabic, is a site in northwestern Jordan, renowned for its prehistoric findings dating between 39,000 and 45,000 years old. Numerous stone tools, hearths, and animal and hominin bones have been excavated there. The cave is of immense importance to paleoanthropologists, as this was the period when Homo neanderthalensis inhabited Europe and parts of  more