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Renowned neuroscientist heads up Texas' brain imaging center. Read the full article.
Preserving Texas' German heritage Hans Boas, associate professor of Germanic studies, works to preseve Texas German, a rapidly eroding dialect intrinsic to Texas. Traveling to small towns throughout Texas, Boas conducts interviews with the last remaining speakers of Texas German. The recordings, transcriptions and translations are archived in Boas' Texas German Dialect Archive. Read the full article.
Angela Nonaka, assistant professor of anthropology who specializes in linguistics, works to preserve endangered sign languages that have gone unnoticed and undocumented in village communities in Thailand. By examining and documenting hand configurations, gestures, color terminology and baby talk, she is able to analyze and compare Ban Khor Sign Language to American Sign Language, as well as to all other natural human languages.
History's H.W. Brands was among nine of America's most distinguished historians and scholars invited to dine with President Barack Obama at the White House during June 2009.
