Congratulations go to the recipients of the 2014-2015 Departmental Awards:

Gwendolyn Donley, “Best Undergraduate Award”

Emily Schueller, “Best Undergraduate Writing Award,” for her paper, “An Ethnographic Study of Education and Status Among Muslim Women in Old City Hyderabad”

Tim Gocha, “Outstanding Dissertation Award” for his dissertation “Mapping Spatial Patterns in Cortical Remodeling from the Femoral Midshaft using Geographic Information Systems Software: Implications for Age Estimation from Adult Human Skeletal Remains”

Sharon Buck, “Outstanding Master of Arts Thesis Award” for her thesis, “The Growing Divide: Understanding Emergent Social Inequality in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile during the Middle Horizon through Bioarchaeology”

Lisa Beiswinger, Department of Anthropology’s “Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award”