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A conversation on Gondwana s modern human and earth histories presented by the New Earth Histories Research Program, UNSW. About this Event
What does it mean to write the modern history of an ancient supercontinent?
Earth scientists know a great deal about the geological history of Gondwanaland and its breakup that began 180 million years ago, eventually creating present day Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America, South Asia and Antarctica. This panel of historians addresses the possibilities that emerge when we consider Gondwanaland’s national and continental fragments according to a series of modern environmental, cultural, political, colonial, and postcolonial histories.
LAWRENCE Tweesna Mills couldn’t believe the news when she heard the University of Kansas would seek to cut over 400 graduate teaching assistantships like the one she held in the university’s film and media studies department.
The third-year graduate student from the Eastern Shoshone-Yakama-Umatilla Nations had received a tribal scholarship for her first master s degree, but her second one required her to work through some of it as a graduate teaching assistant, helping the department’s professors with sections of classes and grading.
So when she heard the news that KU planned to cut 40% of GTA positions, her initial thought was denial.
Thousands of people in the metro area vaccinated now, after a visit to a mass vaccination event put on by the state of Missouri. It was held at Cerner s headquarters in North Kansas City and was the first state-sponsored mass vaccination event in the KC metro.
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In late summer, Gregory Cushman came down with a severe case of COVID-19 that left him fatigued and sick for four months. He feels certain he knows where and when he got it: during the first week of fall semester classes at the University of Kansas, as he presented his three-hour history of disease graduate seminar in a lecture hall on campus.
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Cloudy early with some clearing expected late. Low 39F. NNE winds shifting to SSE at 10 to 15 mph. Updated: April 8, 2021 @ 5:28 pm