Matthew Ortoleva (English) was invited to speak at Worcester Polytechnic Institute on September 26 by a group of faculty whose work focuses on questions of geography and place.
His presentation, titled “Mapping the Discourses of Narragansett Bay in Search of a New Ecocentric Language of Place,” focused on the role of language in shaping ecological relationships to particular places.
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Velez Publishes Two Papers Related to Biodiversity in 'Invertebrate Systematics'
Sebastian Velez (Biology) published two papers and presented his work in Morelia, Mexico as follows: Vélez S., Férnandez, R., Giribet, G. (in press) A molecular phylogenetic approach to the New . . .