Jimmy Erkens presents poster at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists
Jimmy Erkens gave a poster at the AABA meeting on “Evidence of differential selection on CCR5 in African green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus), a natural host of SIV, following transplantation to the Caribbean”
Laura Brubaker-Wittman presents at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists
Laura Brubaker-Wittman (PhD) presented some of her dissertation results at the AABA meeting in Baltimore, presenting on “Energetic and social factors of habituation behaviors in wild Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) in Gunung Palung National Park, Indonesia.”
Undergrad Student Ruofei Shang Receives WGS Community Impact Award Honorable Mention
Undergrad Student Ruofei Shang Receives WGS Community Impact Award Honorable Mention. The WGS Community Impact Award is presented to outstanding BU students whose research &/or advocacy work has made a significant, positive impact on Black, Indigenous, & People of Color (BIPOC) communities in ways related to the field of WGS. This award emphasizes the value […]
Graduate and Undergraduate Students Win Awards at the American Association of Biological Anthropology meeting in Baltimore
PhD candidate Melissa Zarate won the “Outstanding presentation award for exemplary student research” for her presentation “A new reference mitochondrial genome for the yellow-tailed woolly monkey and implications for altitude adaptation”. AN undergrad, Reese Hotten-Somers, won the American Association of Anthropological Genomics Best Undergraduate Presentation award.
Archaeology PhD Candidate Gabriel Vicencio Received the Alfonso Caso Medal
Archaeology PhD Candidate Gabriel Vicencio received the Alfonso Caso Medal for being the most distinguished graduate student of the master’s degree program in Anthropology.
AN Faculty Wade Campbell and Student Ruofei Shang are awarded 2025 IDEAL Awards
Two Anthropology Department members are awarded 2025 IDEAL Awards! Professor Wade Campbell is one of two faculty recipients of the 3rd annual CAS Inclusion, Diversity, Access and Leadership (IDEAL) Award. AN undergraduate major, Ruofei Shang, was the recipient of the undergraduate award. The CAS IDEAL award honors CAS community members annually for leadership that advances the […]
AN major Olivia Mills Awarded by BU Center for the Humanities
AN major Olivia Mills has been selected by the BU Center for the Humanities Executive Committee as one of the recipients of endowed funds given by Alice M. Brennan. With this award and $4,000.00 monetary prize, BUCH recognizes their excellence in the humanistic tradition, which holds an important place in the history and future of […]
AN major Ruofei Shang featured in CAS Student Spotlight Video
AN major Ruofei Shang is featured in this 2 minute video on her recent Communications internship at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD). Check it out here: https://youtu.be/fEyC5lmw1aM?si=OBg4n56WSFSJIRzs Congrats Ruofei! We can’t wait to see what you accomplish next!
READ: Hazal Aydin’s article, “The Transformative Potential of Intimacy: Turkish Coffee Talk and Ethnographic Listening”
PhD student Hazal Aydin has a new article titled “The Transformative Potential of Intimacy: Turkish Coffee Talk and Ethnographic Listening.” Her piece emerged from a roundtable on decolonial research methods and native scholars during her time as a Research Assistant with the ERC funded Takhayyul Project. It is among several articles that came out of […]
PhD Student Gabriel Vicencio Awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Graduate student Gabriel Vicencio was awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for his project titled “The Role of Raw Material in Defining Social Interaction” that will allow him to complete his research on stone economies at Teotihuacan, Mexico. Congrats Gabo!