Please congratulate Jessica MacLellan for being selected as a Jacob K. Javits Fellow. She will have a four-year fellowship/stipend from the US Department of Education, starting in the fall.

This is indeed a great honor as the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability—selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise—to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in... Read more

Congratulations to Dr. Zedeño for receiving a two-year grant from NSF to study "The Complex Organization of Communal Bison Hunting: Revisiting the Late Prehistory of the Northern Plains". She was awarded $193,699 through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).

With this support, Dr. Zedeño, a team of colleagues and Blackfeet collaborators will conduct two seasons of archaeological fieldwork on the US northwestern Plains. Together they will examine... Read more

Mark Nichter, Regents' Professor in Anthropology, was a keynote speaker two times this summer in Europe. He delivered the opening address at the sixth Nordic Conference In Medical Anthropology at the University of Gothenburg and Nordic School of Public Health, Sweden entitled "Toward an Anthropology of Trust in an Age of Risk and Uncertainty."

He delivered the Dieter Conrad Lecture at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, entitled "Hybrid Medicine for Hybrid... Read more

Jacob Campbell, Ph.D. candidate in the School of Anthropology, recently received an award on a paper he co-authored with a law student, Maya Abela. The paper was selected as the winner of the 2009 Lillian S. Fisher Prize in Environmental Law and Public Policy, administered by the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy.  There was a cash prize, and the paper will be published later this fall as part of the Udall Center's Environmental Policy Working Paper Series.

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