Nature is for the birds! In this community bird walk, participants will become familiar with our local "backyard birds" and migratory birds and be able to identify them with sight and sound. This walking workshop will allow us to discuss community and bird behavior across themes of migration, symbolism, and more. Each walk will end […]
Giselle Liza Anatol is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS) who specializes in Caribbean, U.S. African American, and multicultural American literature. Her Knowledge Share pulls, in part, from growing up in a large Trinidadian family; as a child, she eagerly listened to the folklore shared by her […]
Lichen shape the world as we know it—their ability to flourish in disturbed places over long periods of time can build the soil necessary for other vegetation to emerge. Comprised of algae, fungi, and other organisms, lichen were among the first symbioses to be described, radically changing the ways in which we think of individuality, […]
