Professor David Carballo NSF Grant recipient
Boston University Department of Archaeology Professor David Carballo is part of a new collaborative research grant through NSF titled “Origins of Urbanization and State Formation: Investigations at the Plaza of the Columns Complex at Teotihuacan, Mexico.” The total grant is ca. $300k of which ca. $78k will come to BU. The project will investigate a […]
Professor William Saturno receives NASA grant
Assistant Professor of Archaeology William Saturno has received another NASA grant for his ongoing investigation into Northern Peruvian Desert. “An Archaeological Investigation into the Northern Peruvian Desert Region Using Landsat, Hyperion, Advanced Land Imager (ALI), and ASTER Data” through the Space Archaeology Program of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Science Division. Congratulations to Professor […]
Paulo Medina (GRS’17) & Mario Giron-Abrego (GRS’18) awarded the Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program
The Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program 2013 from The California State University Chancellor’s Office, is a mini-grant program is designed to support active CDIP Scholars and their CSU Faculty Advisors as they implement the Collaborative Plan of Support submitted with their applications. This exciting program provides money for travel to conferences/workshops, professional journals, small research projects. […]
Prof. Chris Roosevelt part of a $1M NSF awarded to Dept. of Electrical & Computing Engineering
Professor Chris Roosevelt to validate the techniques used by Professors Venkatesh Saligrama (ECE, SE) and David Castañón (ECE, SE), and Assistant Professor Mac Schwager (ME, SE), nearly $1M for their project, “CPS: Synergy: Data Driven Intelligent Controlled Sensing for Cyber Physical Systems.” read more.
$78K NSF Award given to Dr. Francisco Estrada-Belli to study Climate Change
According to the grant abstract, “the study will provide a detailed record of human occupation and environmental change” in the Maya Biosphere Reserve forest of northeastern Guatemala. This lowland area was where the Maya settled in pre-Columbian times. Researchers note that “climate change and environmental degradation have been proposed as the primary causes of extensive demographic […]
National Science Foundation Grant Award Recipients
Professors Christopher Roosevelt and Christina Luke, co-Principal Investigators, awarded National Science Foundation for their research, Cultural Dynamics and Overlapping Interaction Spheres in the Marmara Lake Basin, Western Turkey, $202,124 Professor David Carballo, awarded National Science Foundation Grant for his research, Urbanism, Neighborhood Organization, and Domestic Economy at the Tlajinga District, Teotihuacan, Mexico, $188,238 Research Assistant […]
Brent Fortenberry (GRS’13) awarded the Bermuda National Trust DeForest Trimingham Award
Brent Fortenberry awarded the The Bermuda National Trust DeForest Trimingham Award for unwavering commitment to Bermuda’s archaeological research and education by providing a glimpse into the lives of the island’s residents throughout the centuries. The first picture is Dr. Fortenberry with Rev. David Raths Incumbent of St. Peters Church and Bermuda National Trust President Lt. […]
Dan Fallu appointed Geoarchaeology Fellow at the Wiener Laboratory
Congratulations to Dan Fallu, who has been appointed as the Geoarchaeology Fellow at the Wiener Laboratory of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for the 2013–14 academic year.
Professor Curtis Runnels awarded a Cotsen Fellowship in Archaeology
Professor Curtis Runnels was awarded a Cotsen Fellowship in Archaeology at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe for June-July to work on the following topic: “The Early Palaeolithic in the Aegean Islands.” Congratulations!
Professor Paul Goldberg awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Grant
Congratulations to Professor Paul Goldberg, he is the recipient of a Research Grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn to carry out research with colleagues in Tübingen and elsewhere in Germany.