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Bambi Chapin of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, will give the Department of Anthropology’s annual Kassen Lecture Thursday, Nov. 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Mather Memorial Building, Room 201. Chapin will present “Childhood in Sri Lanka: A Perspective from 20 Years of Fieldwork.” For over 20 years, C...

Melvyn C. Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet at ���ϳԹ���, had the fourth volume of his monumental work on Tibet published. His book A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4: In the Eye of the Storm, 1957-59 was published by the ...

���ϳԹ��� researchers among team discovering “remarkably complete” cranium of early human ancestor species Yohannes Haile-Selassie—a ���ϳԹ��� adjunct professor and curator at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History—and a team of researchers have discovered a “remarkably complete” ...

Lee Hoffer Lee Hoffer, associate professor of anthropology and professor of psychiatry, wrote a post for the blog Why Social Science? discussing why he believes the social sciences are important. His piece is titled “Because it requires confronting the assumptions we have about others.” Through t...

The final event in the 2019 Social Justice Research Lunch Series will be held Tuesday, April 16, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Crawford Hall, Room A13 (ground floor). Lee Hoffer, associate professor of anthropology, and alumna Allison Schlosser (GRS ’18, anthropology) will present “Using Photovo...

Rachel Chapman, associate professor in anthropology at University of Washington, will be on campus Friday, March 22, for a talk titled “Austerity, Precarious Use and the Elusive AIDS-Free Generation in Mozambique.” The presentation will be held in Mather Memorial Building, Room 201, from 5 to 6 p....

As part of panel of experts convened by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ���ϳԹ��� professor Lee Hoffer voted last week to recommend a new nasal spray for treatment-resistant depression that some are touting as the most significant development in a generation for tre...

���ϳԹ���’s partnership with Uganda all began with an invitation. In 1986, the Ugandan Minster of Health invited the late Frederick C. Robbins, ���ϳԹ��� professor and dean emeritus and Nobel Laureate, to the country for his recommendations for addressing the AIDS epidemic. With tha...

The Origins Science Scholars Series will continue with a presentation by Cynthia Beall, Distinguished University Professor and the Sarah Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology, titled “Tracing Evolution: Where Modern Human Variation Comes from and Why.” Beall's lecture will be held Tuesday, Oct. 9, i...

Students are invited to an information session on the Global Health Design in Uganda spring break travel course Friday, Sept. 21, at 12:30 p.m. in Wickenden Building, Room 328. Attendees will hear from past participants and meet faculty leaders Janet McGrath, professor of anthropology, and Andrew R...