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PBS airs Turkana Basin documentary

Posted by Scott Bjelland on May 9, 2012. Category: Events, Featured

Turkana 12 National Geographic Television debuts Bones of Turkana on May 16, 2012. ...

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Paul Simon performs at TBI fundraising dinner

Posted by Scott Bjelland on May 3, 2012. Category: Events, Featured

Beloved musician Paul Simon performed at a fundraising event on Wednesday, May 2, in support of Richard Leakey's vision for the Turkana Basin Institute. ...

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Paul Simon to perform at TBI fundraising dinner

Posted by Scott Bjelland on March 16, 2012. Category: Events

Paul Simon & Richard Leakey together in 2008. Beloved singer/songwriter Paul Simon takes the stage for a special event in New York City to support Richard Leakey's vision for the Turkana Basin Institute. ...

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Upcoming Field School info session at Stony Brook

Posted by Scott Bjelland on November 29, 2011. Category: Events, Field School

fieldschool03 Stony Brook University is hosting a Turkana Basin Field School information session on Wednesday, December 7th from 1:00-2:00 in the TBI Seminar Room. ...

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Writers Conference to be held at TBI Turkwel

Posted by andrewbotsford on October 20, 2011. Category: Events

TBI's Turkwel facility will host the Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing and Literature's Writer's Workshop in January, 2012. Building on the success of last year’s January overseas Writers Conference in Florence, Italy, the Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing and Literature has organized a Writers Conference and ...

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Scientists lecture on growing evidence for human evolution

Posted by Scott Bjelland on September 26, 2011. Category: Events

5660352212_f95580697d_o Leading scientists John Shea of Stony Brook University, Sarah Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania, and Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, will detail a global exploration spanning millions of years to illuminate the rise of modern humans beginning October 6, 2011. ...

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Stony Brook professor John J. Shea to speak at screening of Herzog’s ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’

Posted by Scott Bjelland on August 18, 2011. Category: Events

chauvet STONY BROOK, N.Y. - On Monday, September 26 at 7 PM, Stony Brook University Anthropology Professor John J. Shea, a recognized expert on stone tools and early humans, will lend an insightful perspective ...

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Leakey and Johanson share stage in NYC to discuss current state of paleoanthropology

Posted by Scott Bjelland on April 12, 2011. Category: Events, Featured

Don Johanson (L) and Richard Leakey, together at TBI's Ileret research facility. Richard Leakey and Donald Johanson shared the stage at a historic event hosted by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. ...

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Richard Leakey and Donald Johanson to share the stage in NYC

Posted by Scott Bjelland on March 11, 2011. Category: Events, General

Donald Johanson (left) and Richard Leakey at a recent visit to TBI Celebrating decades of groundbreaking exploration in East Africa, these renowned paleoanthropologists will make this joint appearance to discuss the overwhelming evidence for evolution in the hominid ...

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The Miocene Comes Alive in West Turkana

Posted by Scott Bjelland on December 21, 2010. Category: Events, General

The ninth annual Stony Brook Human Evolution Workshop, “Our ancestors’ ancestors: the Miocene roots of the hominin tree” took place in Kenya, August 17 – 21, 2010. The ninth annual Stony ...

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