Anthropologist launches high-tech study of color in ancient art - A&S Magazine feature article. Gerardo Gutiérrez , anthropologists and staff featured in this interesting story in the latest A&S magazine.

Allison Formanack (MA ’11) PhD candidate, presented a poster titled "The curious Case of Chattle Financing and Manufactured Housing: Ethnographic Evidence from Nebraska and Colorado Moblie-Homeowners. The Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making features research from an interdisciplinary field of social sciences in addition to private and public/government...

Alison Cool's article Europe’s Data Protection Law Is a Big, Confusing Mess in the New York Times is bringing anthropological research to bear on a crucial and timely issue. We are delighted to see this in the NYT. Well done Alison!

Jason Chiupka (MA ’08) bought a CRM firm that has just been granted a $50 million contract by the Bureau of Reclamation. Among the projects for Woods Canyon Archaeological Consultants, Inc. will be the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project in northwestern New Mexico, which will bring potable water to the eastern...

Cody Newton gave a successful defense of his dissertation on Equestrian Hunter-Gatherers and the Animal Trade of the Western Great Plains and Adjacent Rocky Mountains, 1800–1860. A major accomplishment, not least because he completed it while working as a full-time archaeologist. Hearty congratulations to Cody and his advisor Doug Bamforth...

Bert Covert and former advisee, Quyet Le , have been invited to present at the 4th Jane Goodall Institute Lecture Series in Singapore, if any of you plan to be in the neighborhood May 27.

Erin Smith gave a successful defense of her thesis on Near infrared spectroscopy and bone preservation for completion of the MA. Congratulations to Erin and advisor, Matt Sponheimer .

Oliver Paine (PhD candidate) was interviewed for KGNU radio’s annual "How on Earth" special. Each year around graduation, they invite a few graduating PhDs in the sciences & engineering to talk about their thesis work, grad school experience, and post-graduation plans. Listeners who may not have gone to grad school...

Tessa Branyan-Martin has completed the requirements for the MA. Congrats to her and advisor, Cathy Cameron.

Jenny Washabaugh passed her Quals and has advanced from the PhD track to official PhD program status.