Dance contest for scientists, sponsored by AAAS..
Dance Your Ph.D. is a contest wherein scientists express their research through dance.
The purpose of the contest is to educate by explaining complex theories through interpretive dance.
The contest was first held in 2008.
Dance Your Ph.D. is sponsored by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science magazine, and Primer.ai, an artificial intelligence technology company.
The American Civil War led to enormous cultural changes throughout the United States.
No group experienced a more radical shift than slaves who were freed as the Union Army swept through the South.
While there was no initial plan for addressing the specific needs of the slave population, Union generals quickly recognized their impoverishment and suffering, and sought to provide education and material support both for civilians and for former slaves who enlisted with Union forces.