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WSU Researchers Offer Insight into the Fate of an Ancient Civilization in the American Southwest
Using computer simulations to synthesize both new and earlier research, a team of scientists led by a Washington State University anthropology professor has given new perspective to the long-standing question of what happened more than 700 years ago to cause the ancestral Pueblo people known as the Anasazi to abruptly end their 700-year-long occupation of the now-famous cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde and other nearby communities in southwestern Colorado.
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Education Expert Urges Teachers to Tune in to Popular Culture
PULLMAN, Wash.-- Rather than ignoring the latest video games, rap songs and cartoon shows, teachers should be using them to engage students, said Washington State University Assistant Professor Trenia Walker.
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Creating Music that Gives Meaning and Hope to Life
Composers make choices, choices beyond number. During the 20th century perhaps the biggest choice was: follow your head or your heart?
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Ghost Towns of the Anasazi
For the past three decades, WSU archaeologists and their students have been searching the Southwest with tools ranging from trowels to computers to uncover the story of a vanished people.
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Daylighting Lab to Promote Energy-effective Design
The challenge of bringing beneficial daylight into the workplace is the focus of a new Daylighting Lab and Integrated Design Center at the Interdisciplinary Design Institute of Washington State University Spokane.
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