News & Events

An interesting Article about Andie Ang (PhD 2017) published in the South China Morning Post recently.

Paige Edmiston's fascinating article on recent developments in digital health technology, published online in the Colorado Technology Law Journal. Congratulations to Paige!

Bert Covert has just been asked to serve as a regional Co-Vice-Chair of the SE Asia Section of the IUCN Primate Specialist Group and as a Regional Co-Vice-Chair he has been added to the Executive Committee of the Primate Specialist Group. This is a great honor being part of species...

Matt Sponheimer has been elected as a Fellow by the Anthropology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-announces-leading-scientists-elected-2019-fellows According to the AAAS, “The honor recognizes diverse accomplishments, including pioneering research, leadership within a given field, teaching and mentoring, fostering collaborations and advancing public understanding of...

Matt Sponheimer, (PhD Candidate) Christina Ryder and Alum Erin Smith (MA 2018) are featured in CU Boulder Today.

Recent Anthropology graduate Dani R. Merriman (PhD 2018) won an award for best dissertation from the Association of Colombianists (Asociación de Colombianistas). Asociación de Colombianistas, Best Doctoral Dissertation (2017-2019), Awarded at the XXI Bi-Annual Conference Judged by a team of academics and the Association's board of Directors: María Mercedes Andrade,...

Emily Hite (PhD Candidate) is currently teaching on the Semester at Sea program in the South Pacific. In spite of limited internet access, she has posted a recent blog entry about the class and the students. Safe travels Emily!

Dawa Lokyitsang has just been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant for her PhD research on "Kinship and Sovereignty in Exile: Care Interventions and Education in the Tibetan Refugee Community." Dawa is currently in India on a Wenner-Gren Doctoral Dissertation grant, so this is doubly excellent news. She...

As part of the Anthroplogy Bridging Seminar with Kaifa Roland and Robin Bernstein in Spring 2019, all the graduate students in the class developed a final project to deconstruct and challenge particular cultural and biological constructions of race to make the ideas from the class more accessible to a broader...

Biological Anthropology PhD student Daniel Naumenko has his first-authored article published. The article is titled, " Evaluating Ketosis in Primate Field Studies: Validation of Urine Test Strips in Wild Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) ." PDF Version . Congratulations to Daniel.