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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Syracuse-based Great Lakes Research Consortium (GLRC) announced $121,741 in grant awards for five research projects that will help restore and protect the health of New York’s Great Lakes and surrounding communities, including one project led by Clarkson Assistant Biology Professor Andrew David.
“Our rapidly changing climate, coupled with increased threats from invasive species, nutrient pollution, and emerging contaminants, are challenging the health of Great Lakes ecosystems,” DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos said. “The research grants announced today will help New York State delve deeper into the science of these problems and broaden our ability to address these and future challenges.”
Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis in 2010.
Nishikawa was invited to join the jury for the short film competition in early March. The festival took place both online and in person this year from April 1 through 12.
For the short film competition, three jury members Nishikawa, film director and programmer Maike Mia Höhne and cinematographer Ming-Kai Leung watched 19 nominees, all under 20 minutes. They then discussed the entries one by one over Zoom. “Each of us shared what elements we thought were compelling and remarkable with the others,” Nishikawa said. “The whole process was fun, and I enjoyed the conversation with the other jury members as the way we see a work of art is slightly different.”
3D model and virtual reconstruction of the ear in a modern human (left) and the Amud 1 Neandertal (right). Credit: Mercedes Conde-Valverde Read Time:
Neanderthals â the closest ancestor to modern humans â possessed the ability to perceive and produce human speech, according to a new study published by an international multidisciplinary team of researchers including Binghamton University Associate Professor of Anthropology Rolf Quam and graduate student Alex Velez.
âThis is one of the most important studies I have been involved in during my career,â said Quam. âThe results are solid and clearly show the Neanderthals had the capacity to perceive and produce human speech. This is one of the very few current, ongoing research lines relying on fossil evidence to study the evolution of language, a notoriously tricky subject in anthropology.â