Set in an African American community in rural North Carolina from 1941 to 1987, In West Mills is a small-town story about family, friendship, storytelling and the redemptive power of love. In West Mills is the North Carolina Humanities Council's 2020 Route 1 Reads booklist selection. Our discussion will be led by Tiffany Dangleben, a…

The origins of bread have long been associated with the development of farming communities that first cultivated and domesticated cereals in the Fertile Crescent 10,000 years ago. However, most recent discoveries show that bread was not a product of farming but perhaps something which fuelled it. Amaia Arranz Otaegui, an assistant professor at the University…

Chef Vivian Howard will tell the story of her wild ride from a small North Carolina city (Kinston) to New York and back — a story that is far from over and features a wildly successful television show, a growing number of restaurants and a starring role in the transformation of the Kinston. Howard will…

Pattern recognition can be used to identify behavioral changes related to biological and health outcomes in model organisms. These data are complex and require visualization and the implementation of advanced machine learning and statistical techniques that capture spatiotemporal responses. David Reif, a professor in biological sciences and statistics, and Adrian Green, a postdoctoral scholar in…

Katie Amato is a biological anthropologist studying interactions between diet, physiology and the gut microbiome in nonhuman primates and humans. Amato will present data describing patterns of fermented food consumption in primates and link it to the existing fermentation literature to provide new insight into the evolution of fermented food consumption by humans.

Join us for a discussion of Octavia Butler’s Kindred, her acclaimed 1979 novel. Alexis Briggs, a doctoral student in applied social and community psychology, will facilitate the discussion. Kindred tells the story of Dana, a modern Black woman who is teleported abruptly from her home in California to the antebellum South. Considered a sci-fi classic…