Graduate student Monique Hassman received one of four scholarships from the 2016 Damon Anderson Memorial Scholarship Fund of the Wisconsin Land Information Association Foundation.

Guest Tracey Heatherington, associate professor of Anthropology, has spent the past several years studying the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, located on a remote Norwegian island above the arctic Circle.

Alexis Jordan, a PhD candidate in Anthropology, will use the Bartman grant to conduct archival research and commingled skeletal analyses on the remains from Harlyn Bay, the largest Iron Age cemetery in Cornwall.

Graduate Student Rachel McTavish was awarded a Kohler Foundation Ruth Cohen Memorial Award to conduct isotope research on animal bone from sites excavated at Lake Koshkonong, Wisconsin

Richard Edwards, under the supervision of Prof. Robert Jeske, will investigate the relationship between subsistence strategies and the development of cultural complexity among early Oneota agricultural populations in Wisconsin.

Graduate student Alexandra Frankel is the new publishing intern at the AAA in Washington D.C.

Anika Yetunde Jones was hired as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology tenure track at Oakton Community College. Congratulations Anika!

Professor Campbell will attend the NSF-Sponsored short course in research methods in Gainesville, Florida to be held July 25-29, 2016.

For the last few years, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been the focus of UWM anthropologist Tracey Heatherington’s research. She’s studying not only how people collaborate across the globe, but also science in the making. Read the entire story in “Studying the roots of the Seed Vault.”

Maddie Poullette awarded two research grants from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.