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Integrating DNA, Drones, and Fossils to Clarify Relationships Among Rorqual Whales
The Forum, Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center (CE Building)Matthew S. Leslie ABSTRACT The systematic relationships among the lunge-feeding whales (rorquals; family Balaenopteridae) have been difficult to resolve, resulting in a history of taxonomic confusion. I am approaching this … Continue reading Integrating DNA, Drones, and Fossils to Clarify Relationships Among Rorqual Whales
Ecosystem of Innovations in Nanotechnologies for Safety, Security, and Sustainability
The Forum, Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center (CE Building)Ashok Vaseshta ABSTRACT The geopolitical landscape of the 21st century has become rather complex, dynamic, and unpredictable than that faced in the previous century. Notwithstanding unparalleled level of technological advancements, … Continue reading Ecosystem of Innovations in Nanotechnologies for Safety, Security, and Sustainability
Hip Hop and Copyright: Where Art, Technology and Law Collide
The Forum, Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center (CE Building)Aram Sinnreich ABSTRACT Hip-hop, perhaps the world’s dominant form of popular music today, emerged organically as an artifact of American vernacular technoculture in the late 1970s. Since its first emergence, … Continue reading Hip Hop and Copyright: Where Art, Technology and Law Collide