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Aminé to perform at RUPA’s Beats on the Banks RYAN STIESI NEWS EDITOR
The Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA) announced that Aminé will be the artist featured at this year’s Beats on the Banks festival.
Beats on the Bank is scheduled for Nov. 2 from 8 to 11 p.m. in the College Avenue Gymnasium. Tickets go on sale on Oct. 16 at 2 p.m., according to the event page. They can be purchased on the Rutgers Get Involved page. Adam Daniel, commonly known by his stage name Aminé, is most famous
for his debut single “Caroline,” which peaked at number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and in June 2017 was three-times certified platinum. His second album and most recent full-length project, “OnePointFive,” was released in August 2018 and features guest appearances by
G Herbo, Gunna and Rico Nasty. In July 2017, the rapper issued his debut studio album, “Good for You,” with such guests as Ty Dolla $ign, Offset and Kehlani. Aminé was born in Portland to Ethiopian migrant parents, according to the page. Using his middle
name Aminé, his music career began after the release of his debut mixtape, “Odyssey to Me,” in 2014. “Inspired by everyone from OutKast to Kanye West, Aminé delivers clever, whimsical hip-hop with coming-of-age themes,” organizers said according to the event page.
Aminé started his music career in 2014 with the release of his debut mixtape, “Odyssey to Me.” The rapper made waves with his 2017 chart-topping single, “Caroline” and will be performing at this year’s Beats on the Banks on Nov. 2 in the College Avenue Gymnasium. FLICKR
U. researchers’ discovery limited after museum fire CHRISTIAN ZAPATA NEWS EDITOR
On Sept. 2, the National Brazilian Museum spontaneously caught fire destroying many of the 20 million artifacts housed within the building — including dragonfly and termite holotypes essential to helping confirm new discoveries made by Rutgers researchers. TWITTER
On the verge of uncovering new life, two Rutgers researchers are in need of an artifact once housed within a 200-year-old Brazilian museum engulfed by flames earlier this year. Megan Wilson and Stephanie Bondockawa Mafla-Mills, both graduate students at Rutgers— Newark, were conducting fieldwork in the Rupununi region of Guyana, on the border of the Brazilian Amazon, when they discovered two new species, according to an article on NorthJersey.com. For Wilson, it was a new species of termite which she believes carries unusual sacks on its legs with a wax that no other recorded female termites have, according to the article. Mafla-Mills said she discovered a new dragonfly species native to Guyana that may have Brazilian ancestry. On Sept. 2, the National Brazilian Museum was devastated by fires that destroyed nearly all of its more than 20 million items, including much of its entomology collection featuring dragonflies and beetles. Its collection on lace bugs was preserved in no other museum, according to The New York Times.
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Marcus Guidoti, a Brazilian entomologist and former researcher at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, said there was approximately a quarter of Brazilian lace bug holotypes and specimens like them used to describe other species lost in the fire, according to The Times article. “We just lost a large chunk of history that we’ll never get back,” Wilson said in the NorthJersey.com article. Wilson and Mafla-Mills are now finding it difficult to continue their research without comparing their recent discovery to the dragonfly and termite holotypes — the specimens used as a universal reference for a particular species, according to the article. “I’ve been working to describe this new thing, but I needed something really solid to compare it to,” Wilson said. “That’s gone now.” The duo will use text descriptions of the destroyed artifacts when they write about their findings in scientific papers in hopes that academic journals will publish them, according to the article. “This contributes to the bigger picture,” Mafla-Mills said. “You know that this dragonfly existed in this forest in that year. If I go back to that forest and it’s not there years from now, it says something about what has changed.”