DENVER, Colorado, July 26 -- The History Colorado issued the following news release: * * * Annual awards honor exemplary and impactful historical projects in La Plata and Jefferson Counties. * * * History Colorado is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Miles and Bancroft Awards. Named after former Colorado Historical Society Volunteer President, Josephine H. Miles, and local Colorado historian, Caroline Bancroft, these awards are presented annually since 1987 to some of the most exem  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, July 27 (TNSres) -- The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology issued the following news release: The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum) has earned its fifth consecutive accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the highest national recognition afforded to museums in the United States. Across the country, only 3% of 33,000 museums are AAM accredited. First accredited in 1975, th  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, July 26 (TNSres) -- The University of Tennessee issued the following news: Seven students and recent graduates from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have been offered National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships to encourage their diverse talents in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. The oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship helps ensure the quality, vitality and diversity of the scientific a  more

BUFFALO, New York, July 27 -- The University at Buffalo (State University of New York) issued the following news release: At some point, likely during the warmer months of 1849, laborers began digging a trench on an empty lot on what was then Michigan "Street" in the city of Buffalo. This builder's trench was a temporary workspace to accommodate masons laying the limestone foundation for a new church. That groundbreaking, unaccompanied by ceremony, was the first step in building the Michigan S  more