Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, Calif. – August 2, 2022 – Two online talks remain in Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s 2022 Summer Virtual Lecture ...

The State Historical Society of Missouri is partnering with Missouri University of Science & Technology to host an in-person and virtual lecture series about desegregation in higher education.

FEMA Surge Capacity Force member Edys Batista (center) carries a box containing food for residents in a remote Puerto Rican mountain community. Photo by Steven Shepard for FEMA The Center for Domestic ...

American historian and conservationist Bernard DeVoto is the subject of a community lecture that will be livestreamed next Monday. Three DeVoto scholars will discuss the life and career of Utah’s ...

Picture this: You’re on top of an 80-story building and must wear a harness to protect yourself if you fall. But there are different kinds of harnesses lying around. You pick what you think is the ...

The Penn Cultural Heritage Center is holding a virtual lecture on antiquities trafficking and art crime. Guest speakers Special Agent Jake Archer of the FBI Art Crime Team and Assistant U.S. Attorney ...

Todne Thomas, an associate professor at the Harvard Divinity School, examined the 2015 burning of a predominantly African American church as part of a wider discussion about the phenomenon of Black ...

Erik Larson’s impeccable prose has taken us into the mind of a serial killer, into the eye of the deadliest American hurricane, into the depths of the Atlantic in a torpedoed ocean liner. His most ...

Developmental psychologist Sheretta Butler-Barnes, who studies the impact of racism and the use of culturally strength-based assets on the educational and health outcomes of Black American adolescents ...

Fisher's pioneering work in design of experiments has inspired further work with broader applications, especially in industrial experimentation. This article discusses three topics in physical ...