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The Ohio State University Department of Anthropology is frequently in the news for its faculty and students’ accomplishments, stimulating lectures and events and interesting discoveries in the world of Anthropology. Check out our latest news here and be sure to check back frequently for updates!

9/29/09: Anthropologist selected as delegate to World Health Summit
Barbara Piperata, assistant professor, anthropology, has been selected to participate in the Workshop on Evolution and Diseases of Civilization at the World Health Summit to be held in Berlin, Germany in October.  Piperata will be participating in a series of discussions related to the evolution of the human diet and its implications for modern human nutrition challenges. Findings will be presented to leaders at the summit as they plan and set global health policy. 

Laurie Reitsema, Ph.D. Student Awarded American Society of Primatologists Grant
Laurie Reitsema, Ph.D. Anthropology student, has been awarded a grant for support of her dissertation research, "The Isotopic Meaning of Weaning: A New Method for Determining Age of Weaning among Primates.

8/31/09: Studying ancient man to learn to prevent disease
Philadelphia Inquirer
Featured Expert: Clark Spencer Larsen,  professor of anthropology
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/health_science/weekly/20090831_Studying_ancient_man_to_learn_to_prevent_disease.html

5/11/09: Clarifying the complexities of qualitative inquiry
Featured SBS expert: Mark Moritz, assistant professor, anthropology
http://oncampus.osu.edu/article.php?id=2825

4/09: Anthropology student tapped for presentation at CUR 
Featured Anthropology student: Annamaria Crescimanno
Crescimmano has been selected to present her research abstract, A Comparison of Osteon Circularity between Human Long Bones versus Non Human Long Bones, at the 2008 Council on Undergraduate Research in Washington DC in April.

4/5/09: Graduate students Hedy Justus and Amanda Agnew received the Best Student Poster at the annual Paleopathology Association meetings held in Chicago, April, 2009.

3/22/09: C.K. Brain receives honorary Doctorate of Science from Ohio State

3/20/09: There was a monk in town?
The Other Paper
March 20, 2009

For the last two years, Geshe Kalsang Damdul who has a direct line to the Dalai Lama has taken on a temporary identity as a Buckeye to help traumatized woman through meditation at the Amethyst Inc. Ohio researchers Dr. Mo Yee Lee and Dr. Amy Zaharlick and Dr. Deborah Akers of Miami University, are hoping the study which began in November 2007 can be used to create programs for military veterans returning from war and victims of natural disasters, such as those who survived Hurricane Katrina, and shift the focus from prescription medication for coping to less invasive therapies, such as meditation.
http://www.theotherpaper.com/articles/2009/03/20/front/doc49c25c6085042905473981.txt