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CARTA Public Symposium – How Language Evolves
Ingrid Benirschke-Perkins
Join the live webcast! “How Language Evolves” is the topic of a free public symposium hosted by the UCSD/Salk Center for Academic Research & Training[...]
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AAPA Annual Meeting Program 2015 Program posted
Ed Hagen
The PDF and mobile (online browsable) versions of the 2015 AAPA Annual Meeting have been posted: PDF (official)[...]
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Call For abstract submissions: Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference, May 27-30, Columbia, Missouri
Karthik Panchanathan
Please consider submitting an abstract for a poster, presentation, or organized symposium to the 27th Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) Conference. HBES is the[...]
AAPA election email
Ed Hagen
All regular members should have received an email with instructions for voting for two Executive Committee Member positions. If you believe you are a member[...]
AAA/AAPA Anatomy in Anthropology Student Awards
Rebecca Jabbour
The anatomical sciences and biological anthropology have a deeply entwined history, and new methodological and theoretical advances in both fields ensure an exciting future. To[...]
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AAPA 2015 Annual Meeting update
Anne Katzenberg
The 2015 Annual Meeting begins with the Undergraduate Research Symposium and Welcoming Reception on the evening of March 25 and ends with the Closing Reception[...]
www.transmittingscience.org
Registration is open for the workshop “3D GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS – 5th edition”
Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno
Instructor: Dr. Melissa Tallman (Grand Valley State University, USA). DATES: May 4-8, 2015. PLACE: Facilities of the Centre of Restauració i Interpretació Paleontologica, Els Hostalets[...]
www.physanth.org
The Committee on Diversity, Women’s Initiative – Early Career Women’s Professional Workshop (March 25th @ the AAPAs) has a few spots left!
Andrea Taylor
This half-day workshop will focus on the challenges and opportunities faced by early career women physical anthropologists and offer practical tools and resources to help[...]
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Applications now being accepted for the 2015 Summer Internship for Native Americans in Genomics (SING) Workshop
Ripan S. Malhi
The Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will again host the Summer Internship for Native Americans in Genomics (SING)[...]
AAA/AAPA Anatomy in Anthropology Student Awards
Rebecca Jabbour
The anatomical sciences and biological anthropology have a deeply entwined history, and new methodological and theoretical advances in both fields ensure an exciting future. To[...]
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International Symposium on Anthropology and Natural Disasters
Ana Luisa Santos
The International Symposium on Anthropology and Natural Disasters will offer the possibility for a complementary dialogue between the various fields of anthropology, in the understanding[...]
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Forensic Anthropology Summer Short Courses
Department of Applied Forensic Sciences, Mercyhurst University
The Department of Applied Forensic Sciences (DAFS) at Mercyhurst University is offering four Forensic Anthropology short courses during June of 2015. Dr. Dennis Dirkmaat, director[...]
www.burkinc.com
New membership management company for AAPA
Josh Snodgrass
AAPA is pleased to announce that as of January 1, 2015 we will be working with a new association management company. After a thorough review[...]
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Bioanthropology field school on the island of Astypalaia, Greece
Simon Hillson
This five week field school takes place on Astypalaia, a small, beautiful island in the Aegean Sea and part of the Dodecanese region in Greece.[...]
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Enamel hypoplasia workshop, Wednesday 25 March 2015, St Louis
Dental Anthropology Association
Simon Hillson and Daniel Antoine are organising a workshop on Enamel Hypoplasia for the Dental Anthropology Association. It will be 10 am to 4 pm[...]
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NSF Integrative Paleoanthropology Grants 2015
Rebecca J. Ferrell
The Biological Anthropology and Archaeology Programs are pleased to announce the continuation in 2015 of the Integrative Paleoanthropology Grants (IPG) competition. Prior competitions were held[...]
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NSF Resource Implementations for Data Intensive Research in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences (RIDIR)
Rebecca J. Ferrell
As part of NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) activity, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) seeks to[...]
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AAPA COD Women’s Initiative awarded Elsevier New Scholars grant
Robin Bernstein
The AAPA’s Committee on Diversity (COD) has made increasing diversity within physical anthropology a priority. We are pleased to announce that the COD Women’s Initiative[...]
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Forensic Anthropology and Disaster Management
Henk Leijenhorst, NFI Academy
This course focuses on forensic anthropology and disaster management, and combines theoretical background with elaborate practical training. Standard forensic anthropological procedures will be discussed, as[...]
Committee on Diversity Women’s Initiative Early-Career Women’s Professional Development Workshops
Committee on Diversity Women's Initiative
Announcing the American Association of Physical Anthropologists Committee on Diversity Women’s Initiative Early-Career Women’s Professional Development Workshops Wednesday, March 25, 2015 – Saint Louis, MO[...]
Richard Bribiescas Deputy Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity
Karen Rosenberg
Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that Richard Bribiescas, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Anthropology Department, will assume the position of Deputy[...]
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Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology, UWM’s anthropological journal, is now accepting papers for our seventh volume, to be published in the Spring.
Lindsey Jo Helms Thorson
Dear Anthropology Students, Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology, UW-Milwaukee’s anthropological journal, is now accepting submissions for our seventh volume, to be published in[...]
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Information about new anthopological field schools 2015
THE SANISERA ARCHAEOLOGY INSTITUTE for International Field Schools
Our commitment is to promote Archaeology in its different aspects of research, training, and conservation, with a basic and clear purpose: to involve anyone from[...]
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Dmanisi Paleoanthropology Field School
Ann Margvelashvili
Dmanisi Paleoanthropology Field School (DPFS) is a four-week field course in paleoanthropology at the site of Dmanisi, Georgia, offered annually by Georgian National Museum and[...]
www.theeagle.com
Gentry Steele: February 8, 1941 – October 27, 2014
Karen Rosenberg
D. Gentry Steele, 73, of College Station, Texas, passed peacefully from this life October 27, 2014. The family will receive friends on Saturday, November 8,[...]
Broken links removed from our list of graduate programs
Ed Hagen
We have a page of links to graduate programs in physical/biological anthropology: http://physanth.org/career/graduate-programs/ If a link breaks, it is removed from this page. Consequently, many[...]
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Paleoanthropology Field School at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Charles Egeland
Paleoanthropology field school at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania June 13-July 13, 2015 http://studyabroad.uncg.edu/?go=Tanzania The International Programs Center and the Department of Anthropology at the University of[...]
www.dohad2015.org
Developmental Origins of Health and Disease 2015 – 9th World Congress
Pablo Nepomnaschy
Developmental Origins of Health and Disease 2015 – 9th World Congress On behalf of the DOHaD 2015 Organising Committee and the host institutions – MRC/Wits[...]
www.transmittingscience.org
Short course GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS IN R
Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno
Transmitting Science offers a new course, “GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS IN R “. INSTRUCTOR: Dr. JULIEN CLAUDE ((Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier, France). DATES: January[...]
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International Society for Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health Meeting (March 19-21, 2015 in Tempe, Arizona)
Charles Nunn
The Foundation for Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health (EMPH) is expanding its mission to sponsor a new Society for Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health. The[...]