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Chu May Paing (Cultural, Phd Candidate) was interviewed by Visual Rebellion Myanmar about her research on social media activism in Myanmar.  Her research on Burmese netizens’ use of social media focuses on how they use the languages

Lisa Rhodes (BA Anthropology and Ecology/Evolutionary Biology 2020) has been named a Fulbright finalists for the 2023–24 academic year by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. With her Fulbright, she will

Graduate student Chu May Paing published, ""For Dear My Love..." The Social Life of Burmese Sticker Photography on Writing Foto, a leading artistic and intellectual blog publishing writings on photographs and images in Southeast Asia. This essay is

Ph.D. student Rob Weiner successfully defended his dissertation entitled, ""It Shows My Way": An Archaeology of Roads, Religion, and Power in the Chaco World. Congratulations, Dr. Rob Weiner!

Will Taylor receives a CU Office for Outreach and Engagement grant.  This grant is for "early-childhood science education resources for the Front Range deaf community and beyond," and will produce English, Spanish, and

Graduate student Gabrielle Perry received an Alice Hamilton Scholarship.  She will use the funds in January 2024 for a pilot study focused on the role of climate change in the Classic-period collapse in the lower Rio Verde Valley on the Pacific

Graduate student Erik Jurado received an Alice Hamilton Scholarship.  He will use the funds travel, lodging and food expenses for a three month excavation of three elite residential mounds at San Ignacio, a Classic Period (300- 600CE)

Marnie Thomson (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, 2017) co-authored a new essay in Sapiens, “Why I Ask My Students to Swear in Class.”  The essay discusses how an anthropologist uses explicit insults to get students thinking about gender and power

Sanggay Tashi awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.  The Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant supports doctoral research aimed at understanding patterns, causes and consequences of human

Katie McGuire featured on KGNU's radio show "How On Earth" as part of their graduation specials.  These specials are for students who have or will soon receive their Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in a STEM-