Each week, UnDisciplined takes a fun, fascinating and accessible dive into the lives of researchers and explorers working across a wide variety of scientific fields.
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Undisciplined is a podcast produced in collaboration with the African and African American Studies program with the University and KUAF Public Radio. Hosted by Dr. Caree Banton, this podcast will push the confines of your traditional academic disciplines and unveil how the objectives of African and African American studies can be found in the everyday if you just look.
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In Undisciplined we speak to experts from all fields whose research is exciting and novel. The tone of conversation is relaxed, and is intended to stimulate and intrigue anyone who is interested in learning more about cutting-edge developments, and looking at the world in new ways. All artwork by MJ du Preez My book: https://books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/319 Nico Buitendag: https://linktr.ee/undisciplined
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The Black Male insider to everything relevant in pop culture, news, and sports with citations from the infamous "GROUPCHAT"! Our beautiful, bullsh** banter is a delightful mix of intellect & ignorance. Listen with care, enjoy. #NoMalice #TalkGreezy #UTP
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UnDisciplined: What can we learn from how farmers adjusted to ancient climate cycles?
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One of the things that is often missed when we talk about climate change and agriculture is that climate shifts have always impacted where we can plant and what we can grow. And one of the best ways to really see this is to track how corn production has moved across North America for thousands of years.Andrew Gillreath-Brown’s work was funded by ht…
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UnDisciplined: Where did climate denial come from? (Part 2)
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For decades the basic principles of climate science were not at all controversial. To understand what changed we have to go back into the past. That’s what David Lipsky does in his latest book, The Parrot and the Igloo. (Part 2 of 2)Matthew LaPlante által
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UnDisciplined: Where did climate denial come from? (Part 1)
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For decades and decades the basic principles of climate science were not at all controversial. And then, something happened. But to understand why, we have to go back into the past. (Part 1 of 2)Matthew LaPlante által
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UnDisciplined: Did human-caused climate change actually start thousands of years ago?
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Archeological anthropologist Todd Braje points out that humans have been impacting global climates and ecologies for millennia. And he says that if we really want to understand our future, we need to understand that part of our past.Matthew LaPlante által
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UnDisciplined: When climate scientists are under attack, who has their backs?
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Since 2011, the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund has supported hundreds of researchers who have been attacked, sued, defamed, and threatened — and this year the organization has been busier than ever. The group’s director, Lauren Kurtz, says she’s happy that her organization is being sought out by scientists in need—and really sad that there is a…
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UnDisciplined: Does crop insurance sometimes do more harm than good?
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Anne Schechinger, isn’t opposed to federally subsidized insurance, but she believes it’s long past time that we look very hard at places like the Lonestar State and ask whether things need to change.Matthew LaPlante által
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UnDisciplined: We might be able to engineer our way out of global warming. But should we?
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It's possible that a nation suffering from the extreme effects of climate warming might take simple steps that could change the global atmosphere. There’s not much to stop it from happening, so Ben Kravitz says the the world needs to be prepared.Matthew LaPlante által
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UnDisciplined: What do wolves tell us about our relationship with nature?
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John Vucitech suggests that it’s not just the science that matters when we’re talking about our longstanding views on wolves–it’s also a matter of compassion, and of understanding.Matthew LaPlante, Raegan Edelman által
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UnDisciplined: What can we do to save the coral reefs? Here’s one, um, cool solution.
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Coral reefs are some of the oldest, most diverse ecosystems on Earth. But they’re also among the most vulnerable. So, what do we do? Mary Hagedorn has an idea: Let’s collect as many as possible and freeze them.Matthew LaPlante által
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Can Summer School Close the Opportunity Gap?: A Case Study of Baylor Freedom Schools
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In this episode, we shift the narrative of summer school from punishment to enrichment. Dr. Lakia Scott, Assistant Provost for Faculty Development & Diversity at Yale University, shares her experience as the Founding Executive Director of the Baylor Freedom Schools Program. This episode explores the program's enrichment impact on students, strategi…
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UnDisciplined: Should we all trash talk a little bit more?
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Rafi Kohan’s latest book tells the story of trash talk, and explains why the practice of leveling vicious insults at our rivals might not be all that bad.Matthew LaPlante, Raegan Edelman által
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UnDisciplined: How can we find hope in a changing world?
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Bill Weir once felt as though he was watching the American story change in staggering ways. But now he wakes up each morning with more wonder than worry.Matthew LaPlante által
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Unveiling the Roles of Pirates and Black Civil War Communities
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Historian, Angela Sutton, speaks to us about her groundbreaking new book, PIRATES OF THE SLAVE TRADE: THE BATTLE OF CAPE LOPEZ AND THE BIRTH OF AN AMERICAN INSTITUTION, in which she explores how a pivotal battle between the British navy and a notorious pirate crew, led by “Black Bart” Roberts, cleared the way for an explosion of the slave trade, th…
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UnDisciplined: How can we reconnect with nature?
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Brittany Gowan says that no matter where you are, and no matter how far you might feel from the world as it once existed, you can still connect to nature.Matthew LaPlante által
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UnDisciplined: How to survive the end of the world
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If you have a gnawing sense that this is end of the world as we know it, then know this: You’re not alone. And Athena Aktipis has some advice for you.Matthew LaPlante által
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Black Wall Street: The Enduring Legacy of a Race Massacre
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In this episode, we chat with Victor Luckerson, journalist and author of Built From the Fire, recognized as a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, is a multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street.” Listeners can look forward to exploring the differences between the mythology …
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UnDisciplined: How is climate warming impacting groundwater storage?
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Until recently, there hasn’t been a great way of assessing groundwater storage, or understanding how climate change is impacting it.Matthew LaPlante által
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UnDisciplined: Can we predict the next snowpocalypse?
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Matthew’s recent paper looks at the potential connections between ocean temperatures and epic winters, like the one we experienced in the Mountain West in 2022-23.Matthew LaPlante, Raegan Edelman által
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UnDisciplined: Can science be fun, guys?
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For 21 years, the pub event series known as Nerd Nite has cross-crossed the globe, making science accessible and fun.Matthew LaPlante által
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Textbooks: Facts Are Not Necessarily Truth
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In this episode of Undisciplined, we explore the complexities, conscientious choices, and cultural considerations that impact the development of textbooks. American Historian, author, and academic Dr. Kathleen DuVal talks with us about how her interests in early American history led to her co-authorship on Give Me Liberty! We put the textbook in co…
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UnDisciplined: How do you land on an asteroid?
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In The Asteroid Hunter, Dante Lauretta chronicles the quest to retrieve a sample from Bennu, which is one of the large asteroids that is most likely to collide with the Earth.Matthew LaPlante által
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Liquid Law w/ Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
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I speak about water, the law, and social systems to Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos: scholar, artist, and uomo universale. His debut novel is available here: https://eris.press/Our-Distance-Became-WaterMy book: books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/319My profiles: linktr.ee/undisciplinedArt by MJ du Preez…
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UnDisciplined: Can a personal creed help young people connect in a rapidly changing world?
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The young adults who comprise Generation Z live in a world of far less violent crime relative to the generation before them. So, why are so many of them struggling? Educator John Creger thinks he has part of the answer: They often need help understanding who they are in this world.Matthew LaPlante által
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Black Slavery, Native Nations, and the Path to Reconciliation
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This podcast is based on Roberts' recent book, I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. We explore questions around Black freedom and Native American relationships. The trail of tears runs through NWA and Native Americans moved though the area with their enslaved Africans. Furthermore, with westward expansion onto Native land, th…
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UnDisciplined: Why do people police language?
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Anne Curzan might seem like a strange sort of English teacher. The veteran professor doesn’t believe in “right” and wrong” when it comes to grammar. Rather, she wants people to be able to make informed choices about language.Matthew LaPlante által
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UnDisciplined: How long can apes remember each other’s faces?
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Laura Lewis met a bonobo named Louise as part of a study on the capacity of bonobos to remember the faces of apes they’d spent time with decades earlier. And Louise remembered.Matthew LaPlante által
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UnDisciplined: What is it like to leave an evangelical church?
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Like many Americans, Sarah McCammon grew up in a deeply evangelical family, where she was plagued by fears and deep questions about her belief system, but scared to leave.Matthew LaPlante által
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Karynecia, Our new Co-Host: It’s the Storytelling For Me
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In this episode, we get to know Dr. Karynecia Elizabeth Conner, the new Co-host of Undisciplined Podcast! We learn about the twists and turns on Karynecia's life path that has led her to us and the University of Arkansas! You'll learn how she used tragedy to triumph, what makes her so Texas, what her greatest inspirations are, and what the listener…
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Interweaving Deleuze & Luhmann w/ Hannah Richter
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Hannah Richter speaks about her fascinating and important book, "The Politics of Orientation: Deleuze Meets Luhmann", published by SUNY Press.The book: https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Politics-of-Orientation2My book: books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/319My profiles: linktr.ee/undisciplinedArt by MJ du Preez…
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UnDisciplined: Is there more undiscovered life in the Great Salt Lake?
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Until recently, nematodes weren’t known to live in the Great Salt Lake. And, in fact, very little lives there — because the lake’s salinity makes most life untenable. But, as it turns out, these tiny worms were doing just fine.Matthew LaPlante által
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UnDisciplined: What’s ‘fair’ when it comes to climate action?
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When humans debate climate policy, the questions asked are often posed in terms of what will work best. Fairness isn’t always, or even often, taken into account. But Stacia Ryder thinks that needs to change.Matthew LaPlante által
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Hidden African and African American Treasures in the University Museum
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University of Arkansas Museum’s Laurel Lamb speaks about artifacts and objects available in the University Museum and the new activities available for families, children and the public.Nenebi Tony, Caree Banton, Leah Grant által
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UnDisciplined: Are food companies responsible for the epidemic in diabetes, cancer and dementia?
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Ultra-processed food and the companies that produce them contribute significantly to the epidemic in diabetes, cancer, dementia, and other chronic disease. Is it time to regulate these products like tobacco? And will it take a class action suit to make that happen? Erik Peper believes so.Matthew LaPlante által
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Reading Black History Through Film
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In this episode, we speak to three Black Film makers about conveying Black history through the lens of films. We explore how these different kinds of storytelling are facilitating new kinds of narratives about African Americans and Arkansas as well as helping to transform the single story and stereotypes about African Americans.Caree Banton, @diasp…
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UnDisciplined: Why do humans use the past to inform the future?
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Memory is not a rigid, static picture of what came before. Rather, it’s a nebulous, ever-changing conceptualization of who we were, what we believed, what happened to us, and what was happening around us.Matthew LaPlante által
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UnDisciplined: Robots, AI and the future of human connection
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There is precedent for humans connecting with other living things, like getting attention, love, and companionship from dogs and cats and a few other animals that have been domesticated to provide partnership. Now, there’s a new option for meeting this need — social robots — who may end up being even better at fulfilling the human desire for connec…
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Fayetteville High School Students Articulate their views on Black History and Policies Affecting their Ability to study of it.
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In this episode, Fayetteville High School Students weigh in on a conversation that has largely affected their lives but from which people like them tend to be excluded. These students reflect on Black History and policies and politics Surrounding their Education including the Black History Curriculum, the Learns Act, the banning of AP African Ameri…
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UnDisciplined: Should species be named after horrible people?
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When an Austrian bug collector discovered a new species of beetle in the 1930s, he bestowed upon it the name of a person he greatly admired. He called it Anophthalmus hitleri — and sent Adolf Hitler a note announcing the onomastic tribute. After nearly 90 years, should species still be named after horrible people?…
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UnDisciplined: Can you still travel the roads that Julius Caesar built?
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Long before Julius Caesar became one of the most powerful rulers in the world, he was a relatively unknown curator of the Via Appia, a road stretching from Rome on the Tyrrhenian Coast to the Salento Peninsula on the Adriatic Sea. Our guest John Keahey traversed the Via Appia, and he joins us to talk about it.…
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Pan-Africanism from an African Perspective
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Kenneth Tagoe, currently an M.A. History student from Ghana, West Africa is passionate about Pan-Africanism. He grew up idolizing Pan-African icons like Marcus Garvey, Du Bois, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Kwame Nkrumah and the ideas of black consciousness advocated by Frederick Douglass. In this episode, we explore the History of the Bla…
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UnDisciplined: What have we learned from 50 years of the Endangered Species Act?
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A new book by Lowell Baier is not just a history of The Endangered Species Act, but an explanation of what’s gone right and what’s gone wrong in the implementation of this historic federal statute.Matthew LaPlante által
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UnDisciplined: Were Utah’s pioneers slave owners?
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Slavery in the United States is often thought to be an institution of the American South, but western states played a part as well. In Utah, a law passed in 1852 made slavery and the slave trade legal, and this law was passed under the urging of the first territorial governor, Brigham Young. Historian Paul Reeve joins the program to discuss newly u…
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The Case for Reparations Considered from Different Angles
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This collaborative episode between the R-Word and Undisciplined Podcasts is a discussion of the history of reparations, the views of three members of the Zacchaeus Foundation organization who are involved in community efforts for reparations, and student questions and views on the subject.Caree Banton, Lowell Taylor, Dustin McGowan, Leah Grant által
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UnDisciplined: Navigating the future of the global water crisis
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Water crises are nothing new. Indeed they’ve influenced the very course of human history again and again but we’ve never had a planet with 10 billion people on it before, and so can we solve the water crisis at a global scale?Matthew LaPlante által
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UnDisciplined: How bugs may help us get to Mars
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If we are going to go to Mars, we’re going to need to bring a lot of things that we need to live that the red planet, so far as we can tell, just doesn’t have... and that includes bugs.Matthew LaPlante által
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5TH LITTLE GIRL: SURVIVING THE BIRMINGHAM BOMBING
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This episode is an interview with Sarah Collins Rudolph. Sarah Collins Rudolph, often referred to as the "Fifth Little Girl," is a survivor of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing. Born on January 26, 1951, in Birmingham, Alabama, Rudolph lost her sister, Addie Mae Collins, and three other girls in the bombing. She herself sustained severe injuries. …
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Meet African Griot Bassekou transmitting History Through Music
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We speak to Bassekou Kouyate, a griot (storyteller via music) from Mali, a true masters of the ngoni, an ancient traditional lute found throughout West Africa. He is a virtuoso, innovator, stronghold of tradition all at the same time.*Produced by Matthew MooreCaree Banton, Nenebi Tony, Matthew Moore által
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Critical International Law w/ David Kennedy & Martti Koskenniemi
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I speak to David Kennedy & Martti Koskenniemi about their new co-authored book, "Of Law and the World: Critical Conversations on Power, History, and Political Economy" from Harvard University Press.The book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674290785My book: books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/319My profiles: linktr.ee/undis…
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UnDisciplined: How inclusivity benefits men and women on the autism spectrum
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Autism Spectrum Disorder exists on a continuum of behaviors, capabilities, and deviations from norms — and for a very long time, that spectrum didn't include much space for girls.Matthew LaPlante által
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African and African American Studies Student Approach from a Medical Perspectives
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We speak to a student who has interest in African and African American Studies from a medicine and health perspective. She explores why being an African and African American Studies major is important especially for those considering medical schoolCaree Banton, Nenebi Tony, Leah Grant által
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