Patricia Richards, Associate Director of the department’s Cultural Resource Management program, was asked to be on hand when the Guest House of Milwaukee broke ground on an addition.

UWM faculty, graduate students, and staff of the UWM Cultural Resource Management presented the symposium “People that no one had use for, had nothing to give to, no place to offer: The Milwaukee County Institution Grounds Poor Farm Cemetery” at the SAA Annual Meeting.

Anthropology PhD graduates Lindsay Barone, Katinka Hooyer, Anika Jones, and Seth Schneider, as well as Masters graduate Clare Connelly pose with their advisors after commencement, May 17, 2015.

Prof. Robert Jeske was interviewed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for an article on the Lizard Mounds Park landscape restoration efforts in which he participated.

Graduate student Katherine Sterner-Miller was senior author on the paper with fellow student Robert Ahlrichs and Prof. Robert Jeske. The paper was presented in an Experimental Archaeology session at the SAA Annual Meeting.

Professor Perley‘s efforts to get the American Anthropological Association to make a public statement condemning the use of American Indian imagery and names as mascots has been fulfilled.

Graduate student Kevin Garstki, along with Bettina Arnold and Matthew Murray, publishes article in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

Bernard Perley presented his artwork and anthropology research to the Office of Homeland Security/Citizenship and Immigrations Services Field Office in Milwaukee (USCIS).

Heatherington’s research tracks global gene banking initiatives across scales and networks of collaboration, connected through the node of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.