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Holly Brause Awarded the 2020 Ruth Kennedy Award
Posted: Nov 12, 2019 - 01:00pm
Holly Brause, graduate student in the UNM Ethnology Program, has been awarded the Ruth Kennedy Memorial Lectureship Award for the 2020 award cycle. The Ruth E. Kennedy Award was established to honor the memory of Ruth E. Kennedy, wife of Edwin...read more
Thatcher Rogers Awarded 2019 PaleoWest Foundation Scholarship
Posted: Nov 12, 2019 - 12:00pm
Thatcher Rogers has been awarded a 2019 PaleoWest Foundation Scholarship Award for his project “Between Casas Grandes and Salado: Investigating Community Formation and Identity in the Borderlands of the Southwest, AD 1200-1450." The mission ...read more
Paulina Przystupa Selected to Attend Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Workshop in Research Methods
Posted: Nov 12, 2019 - 12:00pm
Paulina Przystupa has been selected to attend the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Workshop in Research Methods, "Sovereignty and Survivance in Spatial Archives and Urban Landscapes" at Oklahoma State University March 12-14, 2...read more
Amy Thompson Appointed Post Doctoral Fellow at the Field Museum
Posted: Sep 30, 2019 - 01:59pm
Amy Thompson has been selected as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Field Museum in Chicago for a two year appointment starting in late Spring 2020. Field Museum Postdoctoral scientists have the opportunity to work with on...read more
Dr. Jill Jordan Appointed the George Stuart Residential Scholar
Posted: Sep 30, 2019 - 10:00am
Dr. Jill Jordan has been appointed the George Stuart Residential Scholar at the Boundary End Center for the 2019-2020 academic year. The BEC was established in 1997 as a scholarly retreat, library, and meeting space by Dr. George Stu...read more
Jacque Kocer Awarded American Indian Graduate Center Special Higher Education Program Grant
Posted: Aug 26, 2019 - 09:30am
Jacque Kocer, Archaeology graduate student, has been awarded an American Indian Graduate Center Special Higher Education Program Grant, which provides funding for multiple semesters. Jacque will use the funding to continue her graduate st...read more
Amy Thompson Recieves Graduate Student Success Scholarship
Posted: Aug 20, 2019 - 02:00pm
Amy Thompson was awarded the Graduate Student Success Scholarship for the Fall 2019 semester from the UNM Office of Graduate Studies and the College of A&S for completion of the PhD. Her dissertation research focuses on why people ...read more
Genevieve Woodhead Awarded 2019 Pecos Conference Linda Cordell Prize
Posted: Aug 12, 2019 - 12:00am
Archaeology graduate student Genevieve Woodhead was awarded the 2019 Pecos Conference’s Cordell Prize. Her paper Corrugated Pottery: A Legible Record? pieces together prehispanic ceramic production through the study of Ancestra...read more
Linking Late Paleoindian Stone Tool Technologies and Populations in North, Central and South America
Posted: Jul 22, 2019 - 12:00am
In new research published recently in PLOS One titled Linking late Paleoindian stone tool technlogies and populations in North, Central and South America, UNM scientists led a study in Belize to document the very earliest indigenous stone tool tradi...read more
