UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Nov. 6 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * $13.9M grant to investigate how fire, climate, people shaped Africa's landscapes * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Land use change and climate change are major threats to biodiversity, and understanding these threats is nowhere as important as in the Afrotropics, one of the world's biogeographical realms, which includes the African continent and the southern Arabian Peninsula, according to Sarah Ivor  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, posted the following news release: * * * N.M. Delegation Condemns Trump Administration's Move to Begin Reversing Protections for Chaco Canyon U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Nov. 6 -- Vanderbilt University posted the following news: * * * Russell Smith, BA'68: Amateur Archaeologist * Russell Smith of Washington, D.C., never dreamed that after retiring from his law practice, he would join Vanderbilt faculty and students on international archaeological digs that made extraordinary finds. It all began during Smith's Quinq Reunion in 2018, when he and his wife, Judy Lavine Smith, BS'69, met with members of the Department of Jewish Studies to   more