News & Events
- Anden Drolet will be awarded a Master鈥檚 Degree in December, having given a successful defense of his final exam. Hats off to Anden and advisor, Carole McGranahan.
- Katie McGuire gave a successful defense of her thesis on The Social Behavior and Dynamics Of Old Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Lemur Catta) At The Duke Lemur Center and will be awarded a Master鈥檚 Degree in December. Congratulations to Katie and advisor,
- The Anthropology Club did a guided tour of the Denver Zoo last week with Bert Covert, to learn about their conservation program for primates and other animals. Learn more about the program here.
- Robin Bernstein and Dennis Van Gerven served as invaluable consultants to Gabriela Sheets in her dissertation research on The Developmental Ecology of the Infant Gut Microbiome. The SMA Dissertation Award is intended to recognize a dissertation that
- Scott Ortman, Patrick Cruz and family are featured in the lead article of the latest High Country News: 鈥淚ndigenous Knowledge Helps Untangle the Mystery of Mesa Verde鈥.
- The National Science Foundation has awarded Sarah Kurnick a grant of $111,921 to continue research on Postclassic Maya politics and community archaeology at Punta Laguna, Mexico. Hearty congratulations to Sarah!
- Payson Sheets was among the professors interviewed by 9News on traditions in other cultures related to these astronomical events: 鈥淭he Maya actually predicted solar and lunar eclipses during the Classic period (AD 300-900). They did it not by a
- Scott Ortman was a contributing scholar on a recently published paper for PLOS|one: 鈥淧rehistoric mitochondrial DNA of domesticate animals supports a 13th century exodus from the northern US southwest鈥. Also available in the Daily Camera, CU Boulder
- Michelle Sauther has been 鈥淪tudying an elusive South African primate.鈥 Bushbabies are among the world鈥檚 least studied non-human primates. You can read the story in CU Boulder Today.
- Allison Formanack and Richard BenderAllison Formanack (MA 鈥11) and Richard Bender (MA 鈥09) both PhD candidates, presented a poster titled "Examining Mobile-Homeownership in Urban Land-Lease Mobile Home Communities: an Anthropological Perspective"