Why did residents of what’s now Cahokia, Illinois, abandon their thriving settlement a millennium ago? Geoarchaeologist Caitlin Rankin’14 and her colleagues are untangling this mystery with the latest tools, an interdisciplinary mindset, and a willingness to challenge long-held assumptions.
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The North Carolina coastal system is always evolving, but a malleable coastline shaped by powerful storms and rising seas clashes with summer tourism, the area’s most important economic driver. At the crossroads of this conflict stands Stan Riggs’60, a coastal geologist and evangelist for science education as the way forward.
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