Word: hopi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...picture question was how do proteins evolve new functions? How do you go from a harmless digestive enzyme into something that’s a toxin?” said Hopi Hoekstra, an associate professor of natural sciences and one of the authors of the study. “We were particularly interested in the molecular changes that supercharge the enzyme...
Natural sciences professor Hopi E. Hoekstra, who studies speciation in mice, is excited about the genetic implications of Kronforst’s research...
...magic of [Darwin] is to be able to open up his papers, see his writing,” Browne said at the Darwin Day Symposium, which also featured Stephen Pinker, Hopi E. Hoekstra, Marc D. Hauser, and Arkhat Abzhanov...
...Holyoke Center is more fertile these days thanks to some Hopi spirits—though spirits of a distinctly 20th century sort. Hopi katsina dolls—traditionally carved by Hopi Indians to share the stories of their ancestors—are telling their stories through a new medium: photography. Through Feb. 28, George Ducharme will be displaying a photographic study of his collection of katsina dolls in the Holyoke Center Exhibition Space. The dolls’ carvings are meant to represent katsina spirits, benevolent ancestral beings whom the Hopi believe can bring fertility and health to their native arid...
...heartbeats, it looked as if her little girl's fear was real. Then a humvee swerved off the road, and the driver beckoned to her. "Get in." It was Private First Class Lori Ann Piestewa, her best friend. The sergeant hopped in another truck, and they rolled on. A Hopi from Arizona who had been Jessica's roommate at Fort Bliss, Texas, Lori was recovering from an injured shoulder and had been given the choice of whether or not to deploy with her unit to Iraq. She went because Jessi did. A 23-year-old mother of two, Piestewa knew...