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The University of Colorado Boulder and the SRI Foundation will jointly establish a Center for Collaborative Synthesis in Archaeology (CCSA) to advance “scientific understandings of the human past and solutions to contemporary social challenges.” The new center will work with the SRI Foundation’s Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis (CfAS), an international...

Fall 2020 Ethnography in Progress Workshop - Jerry Jacka and discussant Tom Hanson. We will read and discuss Jerry's article, "Affect and Nocturnality: Place, Non-Human Worlds, and Immoral Times." Date: Friday, October 2nd Time: 12:30pm–2pm Location: Zoom RSVP: anna.wynfield@colorado.edu

The climate committee (Sam Fladd, Matt Sponheimer, and Kathryn Goldfarb) would like to invite you all to join us for a "virtual coffee" on Friday, Sept 25 from 2-3 pm via Zoom. We hope it will be a chance for folks to check in with each other, introduce yourself if...

Professor Arthur Joyce has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation's CNH2: Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems program! Congratulations!

Congratulations to Jenny Washabaugh, Ph.D. student in Bio Anth, for winning first place in the CU Boulder College of Arts & Sciences student art competition! Jenny's digital illustration, titled 'Perspective' (low-res version, below), will be featured on the cover of the annual print issue of A&S magazine, and on the...

Anthropology students Sawyer Gander, Kayleigh Cornell, Nicole Humphrey, Klara Smith, and Shanel Wu win the Buffs Create Award for their year-long project with Professor Kathryn Goldfarb’s Practicing Anthropology class. They created a website to showcase a semester-long research project on ozone pollution in the Front Range. These group members practiced...

Alumni Andie Ang received the American Society of Primatologist Conservationist Award in 2019. Check out this video of Andie talking about her conservation work in Singapore and Malaysia

Congratulations to Professor Matt Sponheimer for publishing 2 articles in 1 PNAS issue! Isotopic evidence for the timing of the dietary shift toward C 4 foods in eastern African Paranthropus Dietary trends in herbivores from the Shungura Formation, southwestern Ethiopia

Ancient cancel cultures: The defacement of statues in America replicates a tradition going back millennia Amid pleas for racial justice, protesters across the United States have mutilated hundreds of monuments. They have decapitated statues of Christopher Columbus , spray-painted graffiti on memorials to Robert E. Lee and mutilated tributes to...

Jamie Forde has accepted a Lecturer position, equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Professor, in Art History at Edinburgh University, Scotland! Congratulations Jamie!