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Congratulations to graduate student, Scarlett Engle, for receiving the 2021 Rocky Mountains Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (RM-CESU) Student Award. Scarlett will be presenting on January 27th at 2pm at the RM-CESU 2022 Spring Online Seminar Series. The RM-CESU Student Award program was established in 2007 as a way to recognize...

Congratulations to Scarlett Engle who successfully defended her research prospectus, "The Power of Placemaking: Collaborating with Descendant Communities to Re-Imagine the Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum." She now advances to PhD candidacy. Fantastic work, Scarlett!

Cultural Anthropology Ph.D. Student Bailey Duhé successfully defended her dissertation, “Fluid: Louisiana Creole Identity and Racial Mixture in the United States.” Congratulations, Bailey!

Congratulations to cultural anthropology graduate student Chu May Paing who passed her Ph.D. qualifying exam! Awesome work, Chu!

Congratulations to Museum and Field Studies Graduate Student, Chance Ward, whose Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists (CCPA) award was featured in A&S Magazine. Chance Ward, a graduate student in the University of Colorado Boulder’s Museum and Field Studies Program, has received an award from the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists...

Undergraduate honors student, Ashley Howard's thesis paper, "Politics, Philosophy, and Patriarchy in the Reign of Empress Wu: Analysis of Tang Dynasty Religious and Gender Imagery in Elite-Sponosred Buddhist Caves at Mogao Grottoes, China." will be featured next Tuesday November 30th at the Fall Honors Thesis Symposium. The Symposium showcases three...

Anthropology Ph.D. student Sasha Buckser was announced as the winner of the Student Poster Competition ( https://plainsanthropologicalsociety.org/grants/student-poster ) at the Plains Anthropology Conference, held this year at the Embassy Suites in Boulder. The award is given annually to the top student research poster at the annual conference, which draws together...

Graduate student, Kelsey Hoppes, was named the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center Carhart Fellow based on her substantial contributions to their archaeology program during her summer internship. Way to go, Kelsey!

Professor Michelle Sauther bushbaby research featured in CU Boulder Today! Professor Sauther's study explored the yearly routine the thick-tailed greater galago (Otolemur crassicaudatu)/ Bushbaby, discovering that females may be under a lot more stress than males. CU Boulder Today

Professors Donna Goldstein and Kira Hall publish "Darwin’s Hug Ideologies of Gesture in the Science of Human Exceptionalism" in Journal of Ethnographic Theory. This article reviews accounts of “hugging” across evolutionary paradigms to expose how understandings of gesture are shaped by scientific theorizations of the ways humans and animals differ...