Congratulations to our 2014-2015 Undergraduate honors students! This year’s cohort presented their year-long, original research projects at the Departmental Research Conference on April 30th.
Students presented research into a diverse array of topics covering all sub-fields of Anthropology. Presentations included posters and talks.

Congratulations to Artricia Rasyid! She has been named the recipient of the Alvin H. Zagor Scholarship Prize, presented to an Undergraduate student demonstrating wide ranging interests and concerns for the necessity of humane studies.

Undergrads! Are you interested in taking Summer 2015 courses? Wondering what the Department is offering? Definitely check out the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality, to be taught by Vibhuti Ramachandran!
Summer Session 1: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 2pm-3:15pm
Download the informational flyer here.

Undergraduates! There is an exciting Archaeology internship opportunity open at the American Museum of Natural History. For more information about the internship, including job requirements, application requirements, and deadlines, please download the promotional flyer, here.
Good luck to all our applicants!

Undergraduates! The American Museum of Natural History has an open internship position in their Public Programs division! If you have always wanted to apply the anthropological knowledge and skills you gain in class to the outside world, this could be the perfect fit for you! Also, if you are thinking of applying to graduate school, having an internship such as this under your belt will definitely make you stand out. Please download the attached informational flyer for deadline, contact, and further useful information!

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)

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.

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.
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For complete information, please download the attached file, here.

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, 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.