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Anthropology & Biology send first NSF-IRES cohort to Kyoto University, Japan
July 28, 2023
In fall 2019, the Anthropology Department was fortunate to receive a three-year grant (PIs Tosi, Raghanti, Meindl, Lovejoy) to fund 18 summer internships in Japan…
Read More »Anthropology now offers 3+3 to a Law Degree
June 16, 2023
3 + 3 to a Law Degree This program allows ANTH majors on the BA track to complete many of their university requirements and all of their ANTH courses in three years. In year four, they go on to their first year of law school, and if completed successfully, those…
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Despite the Dangers, Early Humans Risked Life-Threatening Flintknapping Injuries
May 25, 2023
For most, the craft known as flintknapping is a skilled hobby or art form that was thought to occasionally require bandages or stitches. However, new research suggests flintknapping is far more dangerous than previously understood.
Read More »Graduate student Michael Bliss receives grant from The Explorers Club
April 27, 2023
Please join us in congratulating Master's student Michael Bliss on his recent award from . The Explorers club, started in 1904, is housed in New York City and is a multidisciplinary, professional society that is…
Read More »91ֿ Archaeologists featured in episode of Meateaters!
April 20, 2023
Our archaeologists collaborated with Steve Rinella and the crew at Meateater to find out how well the Ice Age stone toolkit would work to butcher a bison. Watch the episode here: …
Read More »Meet Visiting Scholar from Brazil: Gessiane Pereira
Jan. 27, 2023
Gessiane Pereira joined the Takeshita lab at 91ֿ University in 2022 as a visiting scholar to work on part of her PhD dissertation entitled: “Monitoring senescence and stress levels in neotropical primates”. Gessi has a Bachelor's degree in veterinary medicine…
Read More »Dr. Melissa Edler receives NIH award to study Alzheimer's disease
Jan. 23, 2023
Researchers from 91ֿ and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center were recently awarded a two-year National Institute on Aging grant (1R21AG080216-01) for $625,478. Supported by the National Institutes of Health’s Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative funds,…
Read More »PhD Candidate Emilee Hart wins 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Award
Jan. 18, 2023
Emilee Hart, Doctoral Candidate in Human Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biomedical Sciences won Second Place in the Three Minute Thesis Competition. Her presentation on 'The Color Changing Gibbon" outlined her dissertation research that she is conducting in Dr. Rafaela…
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Groundbreaking Study of Fraternity Hazing Co-Authored by 91ֿ Researcher Reveals Little Connection to Group Solidarity
Sept. 7, 2022
91ֿ’s newest anthropologist, Assistant Professor Aldo Cimino, Ph.D., has made it his life’s work to understand the causes and consequences of hazing, including the possible generation of solidarity. He and his co-author recently published an…
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