News and Events
Our 2007-2008 schedule of Department of Anthropology Speakers will be found on the next page.
50th Anniversary Celebration
Held Sept 8 - 9, 2006. The celebration was a huge success! View Photos
Faculty News
MICHELLE SAUTHER and MATT SPONHEIMER have received an Innovative Grant Program (IGP) grant for their project "Using Biogeochemistry to Assess Human-Induced Ecological Disequilibrium in Madagascar".
PAYSON SHEETS received an NSF grant for his January-March field season at the Cerén site in El Salvador, to excavate the magnificently preserved manioc fields. He was also awarded an Innovative Research Grant from the Graduate School for his planned research there in early 2009.
PAYSON SHEETS has been named a College Professor of Distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences. The honorific title "College Professor of Distinction" is reserved for scholars and artists of national and international distinction who are also recognized by their College peers as teachers and colleagues of exceptional talent. Sheets joins an elite group of 12 professors named for this title since it was instituted in 2005. Information regarding the title and the selection process.
ART JOYCE, as part of a collaborative team from the Rochester Institute of Technology, has been awarded a research grant from NASA: Hyper-spectral and Multi-spectral Satellite Imagery and the Ecology of State Formation and Complex Societies. This grant will be used for remote sensing studies that will enhance Art's field research.
BERT COVERT has been awarded a Faculty Fellowship for the 2008/2009 academic year for a project titled, "Conservation and Ecology of the Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey." He has also been awarded a National Science Foundation Grant for 2008.
DOUG BAMFORTH'S edited volume, The Allen Site: A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska, is fresh off the University of New Mexico Press. The Allen Site in southwestern Nebraska has nurtured the interest of archaeologists and paleontologists with abundant signs of a long history of human, animal, and environmental activity. Doug " . . . focuses primarily on Paleoindian land use represented by the Allen Site and the adjacent smaller sites collectively known as the Medicine Creek Paleoindian sites."
Community Speaking Series - Graduate Student Speakers
The goal of the Community Speaking Series is to facilitate interactions between the Anthropology Department and local communities. For more information, contact Jamie Dubendorf at james.dubendorf@colorado.edu.
Center for Asian Studies' Speaker Series
Email Carole McGranahan for more information regarding CAS events.
Commencement
The Anthropology Department will hold its Spring recognition ceremony in CHEM 140 immediately following the University Graduation which is on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 8:30 AM in Folsom Stadium. For full details on the University Graduation please go to www.colorado.edu/commencement.
The Anthropology Spring recognition ceremony:
- No RSVP required. Friends and family are all welcome.
- Caps and gowns are encouraged.
- There are campus maps on the CU homepage at www.colorado.edu/visit.
If you have any other questions, feel free to call the Department office at 303-492-2547.
For details about any event contact: anthro@colorado.edu