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Project Muse provides full-text access to scholarly journals and books in the arts, literature, history, ethnic studies, philosophy, religion, music, anthropology, and more!

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Dr. Gladys West, a pioneering mathematician who made key contributions to the development of modern GPS technology, is the subject of a new Auraria Library traveling exhibition at the top of the stairwell on the northwest side of the library’s 2nd…
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