Falk to head Williams Adam Falk, dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, has been named president of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. Falk, 44, will take over at Williams on April 1, succeeding long-time president Morton Schapiro, who resigned June 30 to become president of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Falk, a physicist, attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an undergraduate, and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Williams, founded in 1793, was ranked first among American liberal arts colleges last month by U.S. News & World Report.
The nine ancient, diminutive hominids whose remains were found in 2003 on the Indonesian island of Flores were intelligent even though their brains were quite small, according to anthropologist Dean Falk. The most complete skeleton included a skull the size of a large grapefruit. It once held a brain with a volume of about 23 cubic inches, less than one quarter the volume of a modern human brain. Brain size is very important, but so is the structure of the brain," said Falk, who will lecture on the Flores people (nicknamed "hobbits") on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. "I picture the two factors as the X and Y axes of a graph, and I think what the hobbits show us is they went far in one direction but not the other. Human brains got big and reorganized, but you ...
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One week after being beaten out for the starting quarterback position at Oaks Christian, junior Luke Falk left school to return to his native Utah. Falk's departure leaves Oaks Christian, the defending Southern Section Northern Division champion with seven titles over the past eight seasons, without a backup quarterback to sophomore Brandon Dawkins.
... to play in the NFL one day," Alemany coach Dean Herrington said. gerry.gittelson@dailynews.com. (C...
LIANG BUA, Indonesia - Hunched over a picnic table in a limestone cave, the Indonesian researcher gingerly fingers the bones of a giant rat for clues to the origins of a tiny human. This world turned upside down may once have existed here, on the remote island of Flores, where an international team is trying to shed light on the fossilized 18,000-year-old skeleton of a dwarf cavewoman whose discovery in 2003 was an international sensation.
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