All posts by Samuel Rolfe

Congratulations to DURF Recipients!

Congratulations to all of our Undergraduate students who were awarded Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund grants!
Julia Apoznanski
Sheila Blair (Nicholas and Andrea Ferrara Research Scholar)
Emma Curtis (Joseph Gilbride Research Scholar)
Evelyn Glaze
Zelda Grove (Joseph A. Rice Research Scholar)
Lia Masur
Komal Patel
Artricia Rashid
Jessica Rothwell (Eileen Guggenheim Research Scholar)

Internship Opportunity: American Museum of Natural History

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Undergraduates!
The Public Programs division of the museum organizes lectures, workshops, fieldtrips and film screenings related to the museum’s temporary and permanent exhibits. Interns will also have the opportunity to work on projects related to the Margaret Mead Film Festival.
Interns are critical to our operations and we are currently seeking motivated and creative individuals to work with us. This internship enables interns to learn about public programs and film festival production, museum operations, and outreach strategies. We require our interns to work at least 2 whole days per week (10:00-5:00 pm, M-F) plus assist with 4 evening and 2 weekend programs per semester. Although this is an unpaid internship, many of our past interns have received payment or credit through work-study or academic credit programs offered by their universities.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
For complete information, download the attached promotional flier here.

Archaeological Field Methods in Alaska Field School

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The Adelphi University Department of Anthropology welcomes applications from graduate and undergraduate students interested in Anthropology or related disciplines to join one of our two 2015 archaeological field schools in the beautiful Alaska backcountry. The two programs include an introductory course (ANT332) held in June and advance (ANT532) course in July.
In addition to participation in an ongoing research program, students will experience unspoiled Alaska wilderness, acquire important technological skills using state-of-the-art field based research technologies, and learn the fundamentals of archaeological field methods including excavation and survey. Backcountry hiking and remote camping are required. See attached flyers and email bwygal@adelphi.edu for more information.
Additionally, this summer Adelphi is also offering our longstanding bioarchaeological program on the Island of Crete.
Taught by experienced faculty with student-instructor ratios among the lowest available, these programs emphasize a wide range of experiential learning opportunities. For more information on any of these programs, please visit their website and email the respective program directors.
For project updates, employment opportunities, and Anthropology news of all kinds follow them on Facebook.
For complete information, please download the attached file, here.

Koobi Fora Field School Summer 2015

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Undergraduates!
There is an exciting opportunity for student paleoanthropology fieldwork experience in the summer of 2015. A research group at the University of Alabama recently received a NSF International Research Experience for Students grant, which allows them to offer 7 fully-funded fellowships for participation in the Koobi Fora Field School in Kenya. During the six-week field program, students receive a broad background and hands-on training in a variety of natural history disciplines including geology, ecology, archaeology, anatomy, paleontology, and osteology, and work closely with leading paleoanthropologists to design and carry out an independent, fieldwork-based research project. After the field season ends, fellowship winners will participate in a research and outreach workshop at the Smithsonian Institution in November of 2015, where they present their research to the public, their peers, and prominent human origins scholars.
The fellowship covers the cost of the Koobi Fora Field School, airfare to Kenya, and includes a $3000 stipend for living expenses and participation in the research and training workshop.
The application is open to all US citizens over the age of 18, but is geared toward undergraduates or early-stage graduate students. The research group is also particularly interested in recruiting students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in the STEM fields.
More information about the program and the application are available here: https://cashp.columbian.gwu.edu/koobi-fora-field-school. They will award fellowships in two rounds. The first round of awards includes applications that are complete by December 15, 2014, and the second round includes all applications that are complete by March 1, 2015.
Attached is a promotional flier that explains the Koobi Fora Field School and the fellowships in more detail.
Feel free to contact Steve Merritt with any questions (stmerr@uab.edu).

Intersections: Call for Submissions

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Intersections, a new student-run club in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. They are hosting an art salon which is tentatively scheduled for early evening, December 9th. They are currently accepting student submissions in any artistic medium and would love to hear from Anthropology undergraduates!
The goals of Intersections is to be inclusive of all art forms (including creative writing, performance art, film, visual art etc). The name of the salon is Adaptations and students are encouraged to submit work relating to intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nationality. The final date for submissions is November 24; they should be sent to intersections.club@gmail.com.

Ancestors in our Genome – New Book by Eugene E. Harris

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Eugene E. Harris, Professor of Biological Science and Geology at Queensborough Community College (and NYU Anthropology alumnus) has just published Ancestors in our Genome: The New Science of Human Evolution (Oxford University Press)
In 2001, scientists were finally able to determine the full human genome sequence, and with the discovery began a genomic voyage back in time. Since then, we have sequenced the full genomes of a number of mankind’s primate relatives at a remarkable rate. The genomes of the common chimpanzee and bonobo, orangutan, gorilla, and macaque monkey have already been identified, and the determination of other primate genomes is well underway. Researchers are beginning to unravel our full genomic history, comparing it with closely related species to answer age-old questions about how and when we evolved. For the first time, we are finding our own ancestors in our genome and are thereby gleaning new information about our evolutionary past.
In Ancestors in Our Genome, molecular anthropologist Eugene E. Harris presents us with a complete and up-to-date account of the evolution of the human genome and our species. Written from the perspective of population genetics, and in simple terms, the book traces human origins back to their source among our earliest human ancestors, and explains many of the most intriguing questions that genome scientists are currently working to answer.

Spring 2015 AMNH Internship Program

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Undergraduates! Are you looking for a Spring 2015 internship? Ever wanted to work in a museum? Then look no further than the Internship Program at the American Museum of Natural History! Applications are currently being accepted through December 1st, 2014. For complete information about the program, please refer to the Program’s website, here. This information is also available for download, here.
Good luck to all those who apply!

Gringo Trails Screening!

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Pegi Vail, of the Center for Media, Culture, and History, is hosting an NYU screening organized by World Tour at NYU of her acclaimed documentary, “Gringo Trails.” The screening will be held on at 5 Washington Place, Room 101 at 7pm. Gringo Trails is a documentary, produced over the course of 10 years, which explores the role of global tourism in changing the environment and cultural interaction. Please see the attached flyer for more information!