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Through tours and demonstrations, faculty and students showed visitors that solar energy is a viable resource, not just for the future but also for today.
The interplay between the group’s vibrant rhythms and women’s chorus quickly proved irresistible to dancers
Willard and a team from MSU offered visitors the chance to milk a model cow and learn how thermal imaging can be used to pinpoint disease in livestock.
The Texas A&M University Water Project addresses potable water shortages by bringing students into the field to teach communities how to make ceramic point-of-use water filters.
In founding the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, Othar Turner revitalized a style of country blues music integral to African American community life in the Mississippi Delta.
The Sweet Heaven Kings, an exhilarating brass ensemble, is made up of members of the United House of Prayer for All People in Anacostia
Gert McMullin is a living legend in AIDS Memorial Quilt lore for likely having touched nearly every single panel in it.
Surrounded by the UNUKUPUKUPU hula halau , I was once again struck by the centrality of the native Hawaiian language to the daily life and transmission of traditional culture
A big thank you to all of the photographers and videographers who shared their work on Flickr this year!
Here, Nati Cano, the founder of Mariachi Los Camperos, makes a special return on violin
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