Anthropology
-
Scholarship program wins archaeology society’s president’s award
UCSC professor Diane Gifford-Gonzalez’s effort to create a scholarship fund for students from underrepresented groups has won the President’s Recognition Award from the Society for American Archaeology.
-
UNESCO releases lecturer’s book online as free download
A new book edited by a term lecturer at UC Santa Cruz has been released by UNESCO on the United Nations website free for anyone to download. Water, Cultural Diversity and Global Environmental Change: Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures? was published jointly by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Office in Jakarta and…
-
Alison Galloway wins forensic anthropology career achievement award
Alison Galloway, professor of anthropology and campus provost/executive vice chancellor at UC Santa Cruz, is winner of the highest honor offered by the Physical Anthropology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
-
UCSC symposium to address issues of nutrition, health, and food policy
A symposium on nutrition, health, and, food policy is scheduled for Friday, March 8 from 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. in 261 Social Sciences I on the UC Santa Cruz campus. The public is invited and admission is free.
-
Social Sciences division honors teaching, staff, and scholarship
Social Science faculty, staff, and students honored for outstanding achievement, teaching excellence, and scholarship.
-
Triloki Pandey wins Gandhi medal for non-resident Indians
Triloki N. Pandey, a professor of anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Medal by the NRI Welfare Society of India.
-
Virtual anthropology uses digital copies to increase access for students
The trouble with working with bone fragments in an anthropology lab is they’re often fragile and always one of a kind. What if you could create identical copies, enough for each student?
-
Lemur extinctions and ecological retreat followed arrival of humans in Madagascar
A study of lemurs in Madagascar suggests that factors driving lemur extinctions have also sparked an ongoing “ecological retreat” by surviving species.
-
Anthropology Ph.D. student wins Newcombe Fellowship
Adding to the awards for her innovative research into religious minorities, UC Santa Cruz anthropology Ph.D. candidate Sarah Bakker is one of 21 national winners of a coveted fellowship for scholars working on dissertations that involve religious themes.
-
Social Sciences honors teachers, staff members, students
Three teachers in the social sciences were honored for teaching and research as the division held its annual staff and faculty fall breakfast Oct. 12.