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  • In a front page story, NY Times reporter Frances Robles looks into the murder of Sheets family friends in Joya de CerĂ©n, El Salvador, and the two young sisters who witnessed it. Now refugees in their own country from gangs that formed in the US,
  • Robin Bernstein was interviewed by NBC news radio last Friday about her study: “Mother's milk changes with the seasons, influencing baby's well-being”. Seasonally-influenced changes in a mother’s environment and diet can have a profound impact on
  • Sarah KurnickDr. Sarah Kurnick joined our Archaeology faculty last year as a Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Fellow with an option for tenure track, which she won handily.  Kurnick specializes in ancient Mesoamerica and her research focuses on the
  • Hale Science Building, CU Boulder campus. by CU Boulder Anthropology - 3D model sketchfab.com1894, Richardsonian Romanesque style. Home of the Department of Anthropology.Gerardo Gutierrez, Project Map, IRISS/Grand Challenge.
  • Tom Sever and Payson Sheets pointing out two parallel ancient footpaths. They date to AD 600-1300 and connect the cemetery at the top of the photo with a village far down to the right.After teaching for 43 years in this wonderful department, I
  • Forest regeneration through seed dispersal.          Photo credit: Alain HouleJoanna Lambert co-authored landmark research covered recently in the New York Times. Our fellow primates are in dire straits
  • Willi Lempert (PhD candidate) just finished his first podcast. Titled "Haircuts and Billionaires," it's the first in a three part AnthroPod series on the anthropology of outer space. Dr. David Valentine discusses topics as varied as haircuts in
  • Erin Hughes gave a successful defense of her Master’s thesis on Tuesday and will be awarded the MA in May.Her research was on Cutting Corners: The Transition from Corner to Side Notched Points During the Central Plains Tradition. Three cheers for
  • Meryleen Mena (PhD candidate) has garnered another award. CARTSS awarded her $1000 in GraduateStudent Funds in support of her project entitled Women Detained: Justice and Institutional Violence in the San Paulo Criminal Justice System.
  • Professor Michelle Sauther. The ring-tailed lemur, an iconic primate that is emblematic of the wild and wonderful creatures inhabiting the tropical island of Madagascar, is in big trouble.According to a new study by the University of Victoria in
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