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Empowering Youth Visions for Sustainable and Resilient Futures

Faculty member Anna Willow and her colleagues Jake Boswell and Megan Jordan recently received an OSU Sustainability Research Seed Grant! Entitled “Empowering Youth Visions for Sustainable and…

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Alumni Lisa Beiswenger and faculty member Joy McCorriston were recently featured in the news!

Alumni Lisa Beiswenger, now a faculty member at Saint Francis University, was recently featured in a New York Times article looking at the amount of goods and items abandoned by college students…

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New Article in PLOS One!

McCorriston et al. (2025) presents a comprehensive archaeological and environmental study of 371 prehistoric stone monuments in Dhofar, Oman, revealing how monument construction by ancient…

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Nick Kawa and Alisa Keesey Start Work on a New Project Funded by an OSU Sustainability Institute Seed Grant

According to the World Bank, 3.5 billion people across the planet lack access to ‘safely managed sanitation services.’ This isn’t just a problem in the Global South. In many parts of the US,…

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New Article in Royal Society Open Science

In their new article, published in Royal Society Open Science, Tverskoi, Scaggs, and Downey present a complex adaptive systems (CAS) model to explore how labour reciprocity and normative reasoning…

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New Article in Human Biology!

In their new article, published in the American Journal of Human Biology, Piperata et al. investigates the biocultural determinants of complementary feeding (CF) practices among 30 mothers in…

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Dr. Crews and Colleagues Receive a Wenner-Gren Conference Grant

Dr. Douglas Crews and his colleagues Kathryn E. Marklein (University of Louisville), Mario Novak (Institute for Anthropological Research - Croatia) and Lucie Biehler-Gomez (University of Milan -…

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New Article in Social Science & Medicine!

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…

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Dr. Sean Downey Appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal

As of January 2025, Dr. Sean S. Downey has been appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of Human Ecology, a leading journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of human-environment interactions.…