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Recent News About Eckerd University
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Eckerd College announces An Evening with Pádraig Ó Tuama on April 06
The work of Irish poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama centers on themes of language, power, conflict and religion.
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ECKERD UNIVERSITY: Students and alumni teamed up with the Eckerd College Community Farm to plant 500 seedlings
Students and alumni teamed up with the Eckerd College Community Farm to plant 500 seedlings including a variety of native and non-native fruit-bearing trees in addition to bald cypress.
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ECKERD UNIVERSITY: 12 Eckerd students presented their research at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference last month in Miami
Congrats to Zain Bush, Eli Cummins-Mikkalson, Katherine Foree, Olivia Hager, Helena Lewis, Nick Peterson, Christyna Reagan, Madeline Sheppard, Elianna Tenace, Jerome Uy, Sam Velasco and Emily Waterhouse!
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ECKERD UNIVERSITY: When is a mural much more than a large painting?
When it’s paired with performance art that can appear on your phone while you’re looking at it. And when that art evokes positive feelings, the mural can even improve mental health.
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ECKERD UNIVERSITY: We got babies! Say hello to our resident great horned #owl mother and owlet
Even though Eckerd has the highest bird diversity of any college in the continental U.S., seeing a pair of great horned owls nest on campus is a real treat.
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ECKERD UNIVERSITY: We've been working hard to reduce single-use plastic consumption on campus for years with the help of a grant from the NOAA Marine Debris Program
Our Reduce Single-Use project team is even testing a smartphone app that will track single-use plastic use and refusal—with an additional grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, we hope make it public to help residents digitally track single-use plastic consumption.
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ECKERD UNIVERSITY: Selective Forces Shaping the Evolution of Intelligence
In theory, intelligence should evolve to help animals solve specific types of problems posed by their environment. However, it remains unclear which selective forces facilitate the evolution of enhanced cognition.