C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N: It's an easy word to spell, but for competitive speller Arvind Mahankali it was the ultimate prize. At the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee, when Mahankali was in seventh grade, he ...
Shalini Shankar has received research funding for this project from the National Science Foundation (BCS-1323769), the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and Northwestern University.