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June 2007

June 1, 2007 - ASCC SEEDS Club Conducts Samoa Field Excursion

Twenty members of the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) SEEDS (Strategies for Ecology Education, Development and Sustainability) Club spent a week conducting ecology field work in Upolu, Samoa from May 13th – 18th. The excursion, the third so far for the SEEDS Club, encompassed a wide variety of learning experiences involving the land, the sea, and the inhabitants of both. Read More...

June 4 , 2007 - GEAR UP Samoa Begins Summer Programs for Teachers & Students

GEAR UP Samoa, a federal program based at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC), kicks off a busy schedule of summer activities this week, with their Summer Camps for youngsters running simultaneously with their Teacher Training sessions for the educators who will work with these same children when the next school year gets underway.  Read More...

June 5, 2007 - ASCC Students Depart for Marine Science Internships

Two students from the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) Marine Science Department departed the Territory this past weekend to participate in Pacific Island Minority Internships for six weeks off island. Students Milton Manase and Miracle Tali were selected from a diverse pan-pacific applicant pool to participate in mentoring programs in Hawaii and Connecticut. Read More...

June 7, 2007 - ASCC Instructor Contributes to Breakthrough Research on Polynesian Migration

Archaeology instructor Dr. David Addison of the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) has coauthored a paper that appeared this week in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The paper, titled “Radiocarbon and DNA evidence for a pre-Columbian introduction of Polynesian chickens to Chile,” and written in collaboration with scientists in New Zealand, Chile, Australia, Hawai’i, and Canada, has caused enough of a stir within the academic community that it made national news headlines earlier this week. For decades, scientists have only speculated that ancient Polynesian voyagers may have reached the shores of South America, but this paper provides the first hard evidence proving that Polynesians did in fact sail all the way to the west coast of the continent at least a century before the arrival of Columbus. Amazingly, the researchers found the key to this breakthrough in an entity most of us would probably consider rather un-scientific, namely chicken bones. Read More...

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