News Archive

A cave on the northwestern coast of Sumatra holds a remarkable record of big tsunamis in the Indian Ocean. The following article is by Jonathan Amos, Science correspondent, BBC News, San Francisco and was posted December 11, 2013 with the title above: The limestone opening, close to Banda Aceh, retains the sandy deposits washed ashore by huge, earthquake-induced waves over thousands of years. Scientists are using the site to help...

The following article by Asya Pereltsvaig is from GeoCurrents (which “explores current events through a geographical lens. It is a geography blog dedicated to the peoples, places, and languages shaping the world“). It was posted on December 5, 2013 and titled “Islamic Fatwas, Grammatical Gender, and Translation—Or Beware of Those Sexualized Vegetables!”: A recent report in India Today mentions a fatwa...

Joint doctoral student, Elizabeth Kennedy, received a US Fulbright Student Award for 2013-2014 to conduct research with repatriated child migrants and children and youth living in lower income neighborhoods in El Salvador. If time and resources permit, she will also work with the same populations in Guatemala and Honduras. These three nations are the primary sending countries of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) to the United States,...