Eerkens- Awarded National Science Foundation Grant
Jelmer Eerkens has been awarded a National Science Foundation Grant for Demographic Transitions in Central California Prehistory. It is a collaborative grant with Eric Bartelink of CSU Chico.
Nicolas Zwyns has been awarded a Leakey Foundation Grant for his project, On the trail of the Initial Upper Paleolithic: excavation at the site of Tolbor 16 (Northern Mongolia).
Darwent-Awarded a National Science Foundation Grant
Christyann Darwent has been awarded a National Science Foundation Grant by the Office of Polar Programs, Arctic Social Sciences, for Genetic Analysis of Indigenous Dogs from Siberia to Greenland: Implications for Interactions among their Human Companions. PI, Christyann Darwent; co-PI Ben Sacks, Veterinary Genetics, UCD (August 1, 2013 – July 31, 2014)
Congratulations to Mark Grote who has been Awarded the Social Sciences Dean's Staff Accomplishment Award for 2013. This award acknowledges a staff member who has displayed exceptional leadership and accomplishment in supporting the mission of the university in research/scholarship, teaching and service.
Jane Saffitz has been awarded an REG (Research Experience for Graduate Students) Supplemental grant from NSF to carry out preliminary research in Tanzania.
Kristina Lyons has been awarded a Wenner-Gren Engaged Anthropology Grant for the summer. This allows Kristina to return to Colombia to share her dissertation with the communities with whom the research was conducted as well as the larger academic/anthropological community this summer.
University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Kristina Lyons (Major Professor-Marisol) has been awarded a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship. This is a one year non-teaching position renewable for the following year. She will be affiliated to the Anthropology Department and the Institute for Science and Justice at UCSC. She was selected among more than 500 applicants!
Congratulations to Caroline McKusick for her project: Contested Airwaves: The Politics of Minority Media in Turkey, has been awarded $1500 as a pre-doctoral travel fellowship to support her dissertation research.
Winner of the 2013 James A. Bennyhoff Memorial Award
Congratulations to Carly Whelan (Major Professor--Jelmer Eerkens), just found out she was awarded the 2013 James A. Bennyhoff Memorial Award, from the Society for California Archaeology. One proposal is selected every year from a promising graduate student. This award provides radiocarbon dates, obsidian hydration dates, XRF analyses, and cash ($1000), to support her research on the archaeology of the southern Sierra Nevada region. Congratulations!
Under the supervision of Professor Jelmer Eerkens, Samuel Rose's project on Isotopic Analysis of Dental Calculus: A Possible Nondestructive Method of Diet Reconstruction is awarded $1000.
