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 Friday, October 24th, 2008 Brandeis University's Community Newspaper TheHoot.Net  

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Wells emphasizes common origins

National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence, Spencer Wells, speaks to Brandeis Students at the Faculty Club, on Thursday night. Wells discussed the motives behind his work, as well as his findings that the human race might very well have originated in Africa.<br /><br /><i>PHOTO BY Max Shay/The Hoot</i>National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence, Spencer Wells, discussed his work with the National Geographic Genographic Project last evening in the Faculty Club. Wells, a geneticist and anthropologist, has traveled the world testing the DNA of indigenous and traditional populations in order to determine how man populated the ...

UCC passes film studies major proposal

by Alison Channon
A major entitled Film and Visual Media Studies passed the Undergraduate Curriculum ...

Union to form endowment executive committee

by Ariel Wittenberg
The Student Union is expected to announce the formation of a new executive committee next week that would serve as ...

Faculty advisory committee created to consider FY 2010 expenditure reductions

by Alison Channon
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Marty Krauss announced the creation of a special faculty advisory committee to ...