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Tessa Cannon Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Service Awardee
Congratulations to Tessa Cannon from our department for winning the Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Service!! This honor culminates her work in mentorship with students, and comes with a…

Internship experience at the PAST Foundation
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…

Nagarathna Balakrishna Hayes Advanced Research Forum
Congratulations to PhD student Nagarathna Balakrishna who presented the poster "The behavioral resilience of Semnopithecus johnii in the fragmented landscape of Valparai, Western Ghats, India"…

FoodAnthro Blog Post Andrew Mitchel
Check out the newest FoodAnthro blog: "Food And Expertise: My Research on Oaxacan Food" by Andrew Mitchel. He is a 4th year PhD candidate working on success, adaptation and identity among Oaxacan…

Emma Brzezinski paper: Sex differences in workload in medieval Poland: Patterns of asymmetry and biomechanical adaptation in the upper limb at Giecz
Please check out PhD student Emma Brzezinski's first authored paper, entitled Sex differences in workload in medieval Poland: Patterns of asymmetry and biomechanical adaptation in the upper limb…

Undergraduate Advanced Research and Experiential Training in Forensic Science Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Angela Harden who has been awarded the seed grant Undergraduate Advanced Research and Experiential Training in Forensic Science for Undergraduate Advanced Research and…

Summer 2024 Field School in Archaeology
Interested in a summer field school? OSU's department offers a month-long field school in Pickaway County, 20 minutes from Columbus! You will learn and…

Tessa Cannon Publication: Simian immunodeficiency virus and storage buffer: Field-friendly preservation methods for RNA viral detection in primate feces
Congratulations to PhD student Tessa Cannon and our Chair Scott McGraw on the publication, entitled Simian immunodeficiency virus and storage buffer: Field-friendly preservation methods for RNA…

Grace Conrad Publication: Clovis Bone vs. Stone Weapon Tip Penetration
Please help us congratulate PhD student Grace Conrad on her first publication, entitled Clovis bone versus stone weapon tip penetration: Thinking about relative costs and benefits, experimental…