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The Boulder Faculty Assembly has awarded Donna Goldstein a 2018-2019 Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work Award. There were many nominations submitted to the BFA this year, more than in previous years, and given the extraordinary

Steve Leigh has been elected Vice President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.  Congratulations Steve!

Dawa Lokyitsang has been selected to receive the Dean’s Award for the proposal she submitted to the Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant program. Only the highest ranked proposals are considered for the small number of named awards. She will receive

Winners of $1,000 Beverly Sears Research Grants are: Anden Drolet, Emily Hite, Page McClean, Jenny Washabaugh, and Kevin Darcy. Congratulations to all.

Jen Leichliter gave a successful defense of her doctoral dissertation on Early Hominin Environments in Southern Africa: A Micromammalian Perspective. A hearty round of applause for Jen and her advisor, Matt Sponheimer. Dr. Leichliter will next

Scott Ortman was honored at CU’s 2018 Faculty Awards Celebration for his Linda S. Cordell Prize from the School for Advanced Research. Congratulations, Scott! Photos of the celebration can be viewed here.

Donna Goldstein published an article in Counterpunch that deals with the corruption allegations against General Flynn and how the Brazilian nuclear site can provide clarity in what is involved in large-scale projects of this kind. The Brazilian case

Emily Hite was awarded the National Science Foundation's Cultural Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) for $20,000. I begin research February 1, 2018. My dissertation research seeks to understand the policies,

Carla Jones has been named for the College Scholar Award. The College of Arts and Sciences College Scholar Award (CSA) program will provide one semester of course replacement funds to enable tenured faculty to pursue full time research/creative

Emily Hite passed her Prospectus Defense and will enter candidacy for the PhD.