News & Events

Maddie Carlson wrote a great honors thesis last year titled: #FREETOBECUTE: An Introspective Look on Primate Representation and how New Media can Protect Primates from the Illegal Pet Trade.  Professor Burt Covert encouraged her to edit it from

Alumni Melanie Matteliano (MA 2020) accepts position with First Peoples Worldwide.   First Peoples Worldwide addresses the unique social and environmental impacts of development in Indigenous communities, while preparing current and

Erik Jurado completed a successful defense of his Master’s Thesis, "Reexamining the Teotihuacan Hinterland from San Ignacio, a Regional Center in the Amatzinac Valley, Morelos!"  A big congratulations to Erik and his advisor Gerardo

Horse Remains Reveal New Insights into how Native Peoples Raised Horses A new analysis of a horse previously believed to be from the Ice Age shows that the animal actually died just a few hundred years ago—and was raised, ridden and cared for by

Kelly Zepelin Receives the Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the CU Graduate School. This fellowship is intended to provide outstanding Ph.D. candidates with financial support to assist in the process of completing their doctoral dissertations

Professor McCabe's research (as a newly inducted member) is the topic of the AAAS newsletter. AAAS Fellow Terrence McCabe Keeps Pace with Africa’s Wandering Tribes When locals started showing up with machine guns, AAAS Member and newly elected 2020

Anden Drolet, Paige Edmiston, Scarlett Engle, Page McClean, Nicholas Puente, Chilton Tippin, Sangjie Zhaxi, and Anna Wynfield received the Beverly Sears Graduate Students Grants category, a competitive award that supports research, scholarship, and

Congratulations to Daniel for publishing his first article,  A Novel Method for the Identification and Quantification of Weight Faltering, in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.   Daniel and his colleagues describe a

Carole McGranahan's research on Trump and Twitter featured in Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine. Carole McGranahan, professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder, may not be a soothsayer, but just months into Donald J.

Congratulations to graduate students Anna Wynfield, Sangjie Zhaxi, and Georgia Butcher for being awarded a CARTSS grant.