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Harvard University Transfers Historic Kayak to Alutiiq Museum

By Amanda Lancaster | Alutiiq Museum on Jan 25, 2023   Alutiiq Word of the Week & Museum News, Featured, General News  

Harvard University Transfers Historic Kayak to Alutiiq Museum

The Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College have transferred ownership of an Alutiiq/Sugpiaq kayak to the Alutiiq Museum, a tribal repository and cultural center in Kodiak, Alaska. Made in the mid-19th century, the 14-and-a-half foot, skin-covered boat is a rare example of a complete ancestral kayak. This vessel has been at the center of a […]

Researchers Uncover Strong Link between Sadness and Smoking

By nsf on Jan 20, 2020   Featured, Health, Science/Education  

Researchers Uncover Strong Link between Sadness and Smoking

  Sadness, more than other emotions, heightens craving to smoke and likelihood of relapse What drives a person to smoke cigarettes—and keeps one out of six U.S. adults addicted to tobacco use, at a cost of 480,000 premature deaths each year despite decades of anti-smoking campaigns? What role do emotions play? Why do some ex-smokers […]

Dragons of Summer Now on the Hunt

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jul 19, 2019   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Dragons of Summer Now on the Hunt

  Image: A sedge darner dragonfly rests on a leaf. The dragonfly’s compound eyes are each made up of thousands of light- and motion-sensitive units. Photo-Ned Rozell The Piper Super Cub is a nimble favorite of Alaska bush pilots who land on and take off from gravel bars and mountaintops. Engineers who designed the plane […]

Indigenous Leaders Demand Action on Climate

By Dawnell Smith | Trustees for Alaska on Jun 19, 2019   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Indigenous Leaders Demand Action on Climate

  Elders, Hunters, and Scientists Agree on Climate Impacts to Food and  Water  FORT YUKON, AK—Indigenous leaders from throughout the United States gathered last week to talk about the climate crisis and its impact on food security during a three-day Indigenous Climate Summit in Fort Yukon.  “Our traditional hunters and scientists tell us that the climate […]

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