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College students and workers alike are finding a new set of skills is needed for a rapidly changing workplace.
A computer-science degree is no longer a golden ticket. Stanford and MIT…
Julian Amedmariam was just awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Scholarship! The scholarship, which is $4500, will support Julian's continued work analyzing interview…
Congratulations to Grace Calhoun, a 2019 Anthropological Sciences (B.S.) major at OSU, who is now completing her PhD at the University of Florida. Her presentation, “Using 3D Printing to Investigate…
The Department of Anthropology in Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences has officially opened the doors of the new Forensic Anthropology Laboratory — a milestone that furthers the hands-on…
We are thrilled to announce that Nora Warnick has received a substantial Undergraduate Research Scholarship!
Nora’s project is a craniodental comparison of the size of two different…
In their new, open-access study in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology by Jacob Scheinblum, Dr. Scott McGraw, Kaita Gurian, and Dr. Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg offer fresh insight into…
As we head into the summer, we are thrilled to take a moment and recognize all those who graduated from our department this Spring!
Congratulations Dr. Shane Scaggs! We are thrilled to see…
We are thrilled to highlight a new article published by faculty, graduate, and undergrdaduate students in Social Science & Medicine!
In their new article Moore et al. spotlight how TikTok is…
In this episode, we sit down with Julia Frost (frost6603@gmail.com), an undergraduate in the Anthropology Department at The Ohio State University, to talk all things archaeology, art, and ancient…
Congratulations to Arvind Nair and Code Beschler for their outstanding performance at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum!
Arvind Nair, mentored by Dr. Rob Cook, took 1st place in the …
Anthropology alumni Annika Doneghy received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant in Cultural Anthropology!
Annika is a dull degree MPH/PhD student…
Congratulations to Grace Peters, whose completed undergraduate thesis is entitled "Relative dental eruption and mechanically challenging diets in colobines and cercopithecines!" Grace traveled to…
Congrats to Abby Scheeser, who successfully defended her undergraduate honors thesis entitled "Geographic Species Variation in Hominin Cranial Morphology." Abby is interested in understanding this…
Congratulations to Piper Nickoli, who successfully defended her thesis entitled "Medieval Agricultural Practice and Exchange at Arpa Village, Armenia." She presented this work at the Spring…
Congratulations to Madelin Zi Ching, who successfully defended her thesis for research honors in Medical Anthropology today! It is entitled Patient and Provide Perception of Chronic Urological…
Congratulations to Finn Lerner, an Anthropological Sciences major, presented her senior thesis project at both the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum and the Spring Undergraduate Research…
Cassie Davies served as an intern at the PAST Foundation in Columbus in the summer of 2022 and landed a job as a research assistant there. Cass Blair interviewed Cassie about her experiences. You…
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We are excited to announce that the DEM3 Anthropology Research and Development Fund has awarded the first research grant to an undergraduate student in the OSU Department of Anthropology! The…
PhD candidate Andrew Mitchel sits down with Dr. Scott McGraw to discuss primatology, how to teach about primates to undergraduate students, the role and importance of teeth in the study of…
OSU Arts and Sciences Young Alumni Achievement Award
Gretchen Klingler is the Veterans Outreach Manager for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC), a bipartisan 501(c)3…
During Dr. Erin Moore's Fall 2020 course Anthropology, Public Health, and Human Rights, students conducted a collaborative, digital ethnography of the pandemic. At a time when the entire…
Despite the time we all spend in courses, have you ever felt that some of your questions about succeeding in higher education, at Ohio State and beyond, were left unanswered? The Department of…
Incoming Anthropology undergraduate Naa Dromo Korley was nominated for the 2020 Athlete Award presented by The Columbus Dispatch & Encova Insurance. The Columbus Dispatch & Encova Insurance…
On Sunday, May 3, The Ohio State University will be hosting a virtual commencement for the Class of 2020. At this time, the Department of Anthropology is excited to graduate 54 undergraduates from…