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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences announced the replacement for Dean Beate Schmittmann, who will retire after the current academic year.  Benjamin Withers currently serves the Colorado State College of Liberal Arts as dean and will start as the Iowa State College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean in April.  Withers visited campus in...

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences hosted four candidates over the last week and a half in a search for a new dean.  Dean of the college, Beate Schmittmann, announced her retirement in March, and the university has been searching for a replacement, with hopes of hiring in time for the new dean to...

From the Amazon to Nicaragua, there are humans who never learn numbers. What can these anumeric cultures teach us about ourselves?

Anthropologist Caleb Everett and former student Sihan Chen used a novel data analysis of thousands of languages, in addition to studying a unique subset of celebrities, to reveal how a soft food diet -- contrasted with the diet of hunter-gatherers -- is restructuring dentition and changing how people speak. Their findings, published in Scientific Reports, counter the longstanding belief within the field that maintains that languages are susceptible to the same pressures and

Diet, dentition and linguistics linked together by researchers ANI | Updated: Jan 17, 2021 23:03 IST Washington [US], January 17 (ANI): Speech patterns of Anthropologists used a novel data analysis of thousands of languages, in addition to studying a unique subset of celebrities, to reveal how a soft food diet contrasted with the diet of hunter-gatherers is restructuring dentition and changing how people speak. Their findings, published in Scientific Report...

Washington [US], January 15 (ANI): A new study has scrutinized the speech patterns of Freddie Mercury, Michael Phelps, and other celebrities to offer insights on how diet ultimately reshapes language.