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Mithila Story Archive

This archive of Maithil women’s tales preserves this art for generations to come for the Maithil and broader South Asian communities, for scholars and educators of oral traditions, and for the public.

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Giant Salamanders in Japan: Transforming Field Research with GoPros

Project: Giant Salamanders in Japan: Transforming Field Research with GoPros Faculty: Mizuki Takahashi DP&S Liaison: Brandon Karcher, Wes Bernstein Date: Spring 2019-Spring 2020 Conservation of Eastern Hellbenders, a large salamander native to the Pennsylvania area, has been the focal point of Dr. Takahashi’s research. However, he also travels to Japan to research giant salamanders, sometimes with students. During the Spring 2019 semester, Brandon and Wes worked with Dr. Takahashi to develop a new research kit – one that will allow him to more efficiently conduct research in the field and also capture high quality video of the giant salamanders. Many aspects […]

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Stories of the Susquehanna Valley: Churches of Coal Country

Churches of Coal Country, the third installment in the Series of the Susquehanna Valley sequence, tells the story of how the Slavic heritages of both St. Peter and Paul’s Ukrainian Catholic Church and St. Michael’s Russian Orthodox Church in Mount Carmel, PA, have been retained since the immigration of coal miners to the anthracite region in the nineteenth century. The documentary examines the youth membership currently in both churches compared to that of the past in each church to determine the importance of ethnic and spiritual identity to the youth in Mount Carmel today. In Summer 2016 Professor Alf Siewers and […]

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