Old News : Pre-2009

Graduate Student Tracie McKinney is featured in several NPR programs on her field research. Click on each link to listen to the program!

Monkeys - Adaptability 1 (mp3)

Monkeys - Adaptability 2 (mp3)

Monkeys - Findings (mp3)

Students in Anthropology 620.01 Hunter-Gatherers collaboratively made
a wiki dedicated to foragers in autumn 2007. The motto of the course
was: scientifically studying the diversity of forager societies
without recreating a myth". Click here to go to the wiki: (http://foragers.wikidot.com/). If you want to become a member of the site, send Dr. Moritz an email with a brief description of your background and discussion of why you want to contribute to the wiki.

Clark Spencer Larsen, chair and professor of the Department of Anthropology, is the recipient of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists' (AAPA) Gabriel W. Lasker Distinguished Service Award for outstanding service to the field of anthropology and to the AAPA. (pdf)

Jeffrey K. McKee Elected as 2008 AAAS Fellow

Department of Anthropology Professor Jeffrey K. McKee has been elected a 2008 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The election of McKee and other AAAS Fellows was announced in the December 19^th issue of Science. The AAAS, the premier scientific society in the United States, is honoring Dr. McKee for “distinguished contributions to paleoanthropology, evolutionary biology, and science education.” McKee, a native Ohioan, earned a Bachelors degree from Miami University, and an MA and PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. Before joining the OSU faculty in 1996, McKee spent a decade as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, where he is still an Honorary Research Associate. Read more (doc)

Owning up to history
U.S. museums, universities face questions about, request for return of remains, art and antiquities
The Columbus Dispatch
April 22, 2008
Featured Anthropology expert: Clark Spencer Larsen, chair and professor, anthropology
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2008/04/22/sci_whose_bones.ART_ART_04-22-08_B6_9A9UMP7.html?sid=101 (external link)

Fulbright Award to Graduating Senior (doc)

Taylor Nelms Wins 2007 Gates-Cambridge Scholarship

Researchers: Human evolution speeding up
USA Today
December 10, 2007
Featured Anthropology Expert: Clark Larsen, chair and professor, anthropology
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2007-12-10-evolution-speeding-up_N.htm
ALSO: Seattle Times Intelligencer: We've evolved faster and faster as world population has boomed
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004064721_evolution11.html

10-31-2007:

PROFESSOR GUIDES OSU FORENSIC ARCHAEOLOGY TEAM

In two separate, unsolved murder cases, police have called on Ohio State's Forensic Archaeology Cold Case Team to help search for and identify human remains. The Department of Anthropology formed the team two years ago to provide assistance to law enforcement and other agencies in the recovery and analysis of human remains. FACCT is under the direction of Professor Sam Stout and comprises both undergraduate and graduate students interested in forensic anthropology who volunteer their time. Read more >

Indian mounds to remain protected
Columbus Dispatch
October 1, 2007
Featured Anthropology Experts: William Dancey, associate professor, anthropology; Jules Angel, graduate researcher and teaching associate, anthropology

Clark Spencer Larsen Elected 2006 AAAS Fellow (doc)