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Please join us on Thursday, May 9, 2024, to celebrate our LACSI graduating Seniors and Graduate Certificate students.

Food and joy will be provided!

Dr. Pablo Lapegna, Associate Professor in Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Dr. Johana Kunin, Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina, obtained the National Endowment for the Humanities grant Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities for their project Prosperity, Plants, and Pesticides: The Dangers and Opportunities of Agricultural Biotechnology.

Dr. Jorge Derpic, LACSI's Assistant Director, wrote the chapter "Nelson and Celia: Feeling Potholes and Debt in the Bones" in this collective volume by the Urban Ethnography Lab at UT Austin and edited by Prof. Javier Auyero. Each chapter offers an intimate portrait of one or two individual lives in urban Latin America.

Come and experience the enchanting finale of our native fringe tree's blossoms. This tree's root bark was a trusted remedy for cleansing wounds and soothing sores by the Cherokee and other indigenous people of our region. Today, its legacy lives on in modern herbal medicine, where decoctions, infusions, and extracts derived from its roots are prized for their efficacy in treating a spectrum of liver and gallbladder conditions. Apart from its medicinal uses, it is also prized for attracting pollinators and being the larval host for the rustic sphinx moth.

Source: https://www.monticello.org/sites/library/exhibits/lucymarks/gallery/vafringetree.html

-Nunally Benzing (LAEG Curator)

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