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Arts & Humanities Made for Action U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill Endeavors Neighborhoods that get us going keep us fit. -- Neil Caudle research.unc.edu/endeavors/win2004/action.html Coming to Terms with Life U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill Endeavors What if it's all one big cosmic joke? -- Jason Smith research.unc.edu/endeavors/spr2003/wolf.html Creative Minds U. Iowa Illumine What compels the human species to fill the world with art and culture? We can learn something from six creative people at Iowa who love painting, music, writing, and the beauty as well as the function of their respective art. -- Lin Larson www.uiowa.edu/~illumine/ISSUES_2003/FALL/creative.html When Mary Meets Harry Indiana U. Research & Creativity When the Chicago Tribune's children's book reviewer takes on 'kiddie lit,' it's hardly child's play. -- Eric Pfeffinger www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v25n2/russell.shtml Planted in the Past Pennsylvania State U. Research/Penn State MacArthur Fellow Lee Ann Newsom has used plant remains to track the movement of civilizations; to infer the evolution of agriculture; to chart the rise of chiefdoms; and to examine stresses placed on resources and ecosystems by swelling populations. -- Charles Fergus www.rps.psu.edu/0305/planted.html Boas, Bones, and Race Pennsylvania State U. Research/Penn State In 1912, Franz Boas stunned the world of anthropology by reporting striking differences in cranial form between American-born children of immigrants and their European-born parents. Recently, two physical anthropologists reanalyzed BoasÍ head-form data. They report that Boas--now considered the founding father of modern American anthropology--was wrong. -- Charles Fergus www.rps.psu.edu/0305/boas.html The Quest for Donne Virginia Tech Research Scholar seeks John Donne's original works and earliest copies to preserve the author's exact words. -- Janet Drummond www.research.vt.edu/resmag/2002summer/donne.html Emily Dickinson Challenges Modern Writers Virginia Tech Research The writings of Emily Dickinson, a crucial 19th-century poet, may seem simple on cursory reading. But her deceptively rich works continue to bring up religious and philosophical questions for modern writers. www.research.vt.edu/resmag/2003winter/emily.html Spin-Control FDR Style Florida State University Research in Review His hurting nation cried for a jump-start, and FDR obliged, running his presidency on the high-octane fuel of powerful rhetoric. -- Andy Lindstrom www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/summer2003/fdrstyle.html FilmTown, Florida Florida State University Research in Review It only makes sense for a place with enough pizazz, sunshine and scenery to stun the senses. Florida is building on a long tradition in the film biz, and a path to prominence is now playing a starring role in Tallahassee. -- Steve MacQueen www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/winter2003/coverstory.html 2003 issue: BETTER THAN GOLD S. Illinois U-Carbondale Perspectives The artifacts are stunning, but archaeologist Izumi Shimada prizes the knowledge he’s gained even more.—Marilyn Davis http://www.siu.edu/%7Eperspect/02_sp/sican.html CONVERSATIONS WITH HIRAM: REFLECTIONS OF AN ARTIST U of Florida Explore University of Florida Professor Emeritus Hiram Williams, who died in January 2003, was a giant of 20th-century art for his paintings of people and nature.—Margaret Ross Tolbert http://www.rgp.ufl.edu/publications/explore/v06n2/hiram.html DRAGON SLAYER U of Georgia Research Reporter Old literary legends from many lands may have a common ancestor.—Tom Zoellner http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/researchnews/summer2001/dragon.html HARD TIMES FOR HARD BALL Ohio U Perspectives The road-weary baseball players who took to America’s dirt-covered diamonds in the Great Depression were tough men drawn to a rough game in one of the nation’s bleakest periods. Will the game ever be that good again?—Neil Caudle http://www.ohiou.edu/perspectives/0201/home1.htm HUMANITIES AS HOMELAND DEFENSE Indiana U Research & Creativity When Democracy is under attack, there is need to educate ourselves about American history, values, and institutions, says NEH chairman Bruce Cole.—Elizabeth Peterson http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ercapub/v25n1/homeland.shtml IT CAME FROM L.A U of Arkansas Research Frontiers Can television-the most culturally invasive, commercially drive medium on the planet—produce a true critique of capitalism? —Allison Hogge http://pigtrail.uark.edu/pubs/Research_Frontiers/fall_2002/06_Feature2.html LAND OF DISCORD Research/Penn State The Western World knows little about the peoples and cultures of Afghanistan, the opening text of the exhibit read...—Nancy Marie Brown http://www.rps.psu.edu/0205/discord.html MED ED: A DRAMATIC TURN Yale Medicine The doctor-patient relationship takes center stage in performer Anna Deavere Smith’s interpretation of medicine at Yale. —Cathy Shufro http://www.med.yale.edu/external/pubs/ym_sp01/drama/drama.html MEXICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES: HOSTAGE TO HISTORY Virginia Tech Research Generations later, does it matter whether our ancestors’ immigration was voluntary or involuntary? Are Mexican Americans who are white treated better than those of color? -- Sally L. Harris http://www.research.vt.edu/resmag/2002winter/hostage.html ON THE FRONT LINES S. Illinois U. Carbondale Perspectives Is philosophy defunct—irrelevant in this modern age? No, says SIUC professor Larry Hickman—the more technology-based our society becomes, the more we need philosophy to help solve our problems.—Marilyn Davis http://www.siu.edu/%7Eperspect/02_fall/hickman.html OPEN BOOKS: DEMOCRACY'S ROOTS TO RUIN? Florida State U Research in Review Scholars track one of democracy’s chief cornerstones -access to public records- to ancient Athens. Since 9/11 the search takes on a whole new meaning.—James Call http://www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/summer2002/openbooks.html REACH BEYOND THE STRONG UNC-Chapel Hill Endeavors When it comes to literary criticism, Trudier Harris-Lopez pulls no punches.—Angela Spivey http://research.unc.edu/endeavors/win2003/harris-lopez.html SACRED TREASURES Ohio U Perspectives The Kennedy Museum of Art at Ohio University boasts a trove of more than 100 Navajo sandpainting textiles, a collection that has caught the interest of the Navajo Nation.—Andrea Gibson http://www.ohiou.edu/perspectives/0201/home5.htm THE "PEOPLE OF THE BOOK" GET TV: NATIONAL TV IN ISRAEL U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Profile In Israel—-one of the last industrialized countries to introduce national television, in 1968—-the kind of debate heard in the United States as a reaction to programming took place before television was ever broadcast.—Amy Waldman http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Grad_Sch/Publications/ResearchProfile/Vol25No1/oren.html THE AGATEER Research/Penn State Why are agates less precious than diamonds? How do their intricate patterns form? Why don’t we know? An excursion with historian and rockhound Robert Proctor.—Nancy Marie Brown http://www.rps.psu.edu/0109/agateer.html THE GREAT DARWIN DIVIDE Florida State U Research in Review It has survived a full centruy of parsing and prodding by the best from science and religion, yet Darwin’s central message still echoes across a canyon of thought dividing both camps.— Andy Lindstrom & Frank Stephenson http://www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/issue2001/darwindivide.html TOUCHING MYSTERY Arizona State U Research Kurt Weiser has spent the past three decades in the physical dance of throwing clay. But he finds the serenity of painting a particularly cathartic escape.—Sheilah Britton http://researchmag.asu.edu/stories/ceramics.html WHICH JEFFERSON? UNC-Chapel Hill Endeavors Did Thomas Jefferson father a child with his slave, Sally Hemings? Or was it his brother, Randolph? For playwright Karyn Traut, the possibilities were dramatic. 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