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LGBTQI+ Pride Month, June 2023
Posted: Jun 01, 2023 - 12:00pm
UNM celebrates LGBTQI+ Pride Month, June 2023. Click on the red links below for more information. Scroll down to read about Pride Month, events, research, news and organizations. Note: LGBTQ+ History Month takes place i...read more

Beau Murphy Receives UNM OVPR Globally-Engaged Research Award
Posted: May 30, 2023 - 01:00pm
Beau Murphy was selected for a 2023 graduate student Globally-Engaged Research Award from The Office of the Vice President for Research in partnership with the Global Education Office. The Globally-Engaged Research Awards aim to highlight the d...read more
Andrew Gorvetzian Awarded Grant from the Spicer Foundation
Posted: May 30, 2023 - 12:00pm
Andrew Gorvetzian, an anthropology PhD student focusing on ethnology at the University of New Mexico, has been awarded a $750 Mini-Grant to support Garifuna language revitalization classes in Orinoco and Bluefields, Nicaragua. The Garifuna are ...read more
Megan Cole Received the Honorable Mention in the American Association of Biological Anthropologists' Student Poster Competition
Posted: May 30, 2023 - 10:00am
Megan Cole received the Honorable Mention in the American Association of Biological Anthropologists' Student Poster Competition at this year's AABA annual meetings. The Abstract for her poster, Individual differences in baseline cortisol ...read more

Scientists Revive Stone Age Molecules: UNM's Straus Discovered Prehistoric Remains Used in Study
Posted: May 08, 2023 - 12:00pm
Breakthroughs in ancient genome reconstruction and biotechnology are now revealing the rich molecular secrets of Paleolithic microorganisms. In a transdisciplinary study, scientists are rebuilding microbial natural products up to 100,000 yea...read more

Md. Khaled Bin Oli Bhuiyan Awarded NSF Research Experience for Graduate Student Grant
Posted: May 02, 2023 - 12:00pm
Md. Khaled Bin Oli Bhuiyan has received an NSF Research Experience for Graduate Student Grant to investigate the effects of markets on the timing of life history events among ni-Vanuatu. He will be joining Profs. Mattison and Wallace in Vanuatu this...read more
Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month, May 2023
Posted: May 01, 2023 - 12:00pm
UNM celebrates Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month, May 2023. Click on the red links below for more information. Scroll down to read about AAPI Month, events, scholars, research, news and organizat...read more

Emily Moes Awarded the Turner/Cambridge University Press Award from the Dental Anthropology Association
Posted: Apr 25, 2023 - 09:00am
Emily Moes has been awarded the Turner/Cambridge University Press Award from the Dental Anthropology Association. The prize is for best student dental anthropology poster at the meetings of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists meet...read more

Amanda Dobrov Runner Up for Society for Archaeological Sciences R.E. Taylor Poster Award
Posted: Apr 17, 2023 - 12:00pm
The runner-up for this year’s RE Taylor Poster Student Award at the Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, is Amanda Dobrov, MA Student in Public Archaeology at the UNM Department of Anthropology. Aman...read more
Six UNM Anthropology Undergraduates Awarded the SAA Cheryl L. Wase Memorial Scholarship
Posted: Apr 17, 2023 - 12:00pm
Six UNM Anthropology undergraduates (Erin Cassidy, Jo Lynne, Jessica Hilfers, Jessie Johnson, Robin Kibler, and Autumn Myerscough) have been awarded the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Cheryl L. Wase Memorial Sch...read more

Agricultural Intensification, Regional Differentiation, and Incipient Village Formation: Early Formative Period Patterning in the San Carlos Safford Area, Southeastern Arizona
Posted: Apr 07, 2023 - 12:00pm
Thatcher Rogers (UNM PhD Candidate) and Joseph S. Crary have published Agricultural Intensification, Regional Differentiation, and Incipient Village Formation: Early Formative Period Patterning in the San Carlos Safford Area, Southeastern Ariz...read more
UNM Anthropology: Ethnology Changes Name to Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology (SCALA)
Posted: Apr 07, 2023 - 12:00pm
The Ethnology subfield has changed its name to Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology (SCALA). While the term "Ethnology" has a deep history in our discipline, signifying a focus upon contemporary societies and cultures, it has fallen out of use ...read more

Less Predictable Rainfall May Have Caused Disintegration of Early Maya Societies
Posted: Apr 07, 2023 - 11:00am
Reduced predictability of seasonal rainfall might have played a significant role in the disintegration of Classic Maya societies about 1,100 years ago. Decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic Maya societies is a...read more

Early Dispersal of Domestic Horses into the Great Plains and Northern Rockies
Posted: Apr 05, 2023 - 02:00pm
UNM PhD Alum (2016) Dr. William Taylor, Dr. Emily Jones, Victoria Monagle (Archaeology graduate student), and Caroline Gabe (UNM PhD, 2019) are among the co-authors of a new new article Early Dispersal of Domestic Horses into the Great Pla...read more

Hannah Cantrell, recent Anthropology Undergraduate, Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Posted: Apr 05, 2023 - 02:00pm
Hannah Cantrell, a recent graduate of UNM’s Anthropology Department, has been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. They are headed to the University of Oregon this fall to obtain their PhD in Biological Anthrop...read more