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Congratulations to Monique Borgerhoff Mulder (and colleagues) for a paper published this week in PNAS evaluating conservation strategies worldwide

December 14, 2012

Professor Lynne Isbell's Study on Gender Bias in Science Published in PLoS One

December 07, 2012

Lynne Isbell's research on the underrepresentation of women in science has been published by the PLoS One Journal. UCDavis News and Information has also covered the this event and more information can be found here: http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10419

Congratulations to Professor Isbell

Congratulations to Joe Dumit, who's newest book Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health, is now published by Duke University Press

October 18, 2012

A study of sleep in a troop of wild baboons reveals that catching up on lost sleep might be a luxury that wild animals cannot afford. (Carter Loftus/UC Davis/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior) No Time to Nap in Nature

by Carla Avolio
March 02, 2022

News A study of sleep in a troop of wild baboons reveals that catching up on lost sleep might be a luxury that wild animals cannot afford.

Jelmer Eerkens awarded $230,000 NSF grant for an interdisciplinary project with a colleague in Geology

October 18, 2012

RAPID: Coupled Contagion, Behavior-Change, and the Dynamics of Pro- and Anti-Social Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic Award Abstract # 2028160 RAPID: Coupled Contagion, Behavior-Change, and the Dynamics of Pro- and Anti-Social Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures is one of the featured posts on the UC Humanities Forum

October 18, 2012

http://uchumanitiesforum.org/2012/05/21/encyclopedia-of-women-in-islami…. Check it out!

Congratulations to Meradeth Snow who will be a faculty member at the University of Montana starting Fall 2012

July 20, 2012

Denisovans or Homo Sapiens: Who Were the First to Settle (Permanently) on the Tibetan Plateau? Extinct Denisovans Passed on Genes That Help Tibetans Survive High Altitudes by Kathleen Holder Denisovans or Homo Sapiens: Who Were the First to Settle (Permanently) on the Tibetan Plateau? Extinct Denisovans Passed on Genes That Help Tibetans Survive High Altitudes

by Kathleen Holder
December 07, 2021

News A new paper by archaeologists at UC Davis high

Congratulations to Katie Demps and David Nolin who will be new faculty at Boise State University beginning Fall 2012

July 16, 2012

Climate change is drastically altering the archaeological record in northwestern Greenland. Archaeologists from Bowdoin College, UC Davis, and the Greenland National Museum are in "A Race to Save the Artifacts." Featuring Anthropology Research Associate Dr. John Darwent and PhD Candidate Jason Miszaniec: http://features.bowdoin.edu/save-the-artifacts

Climate change is drastically altering the archaeological record in northwestern Greenland.

The National Science Foundation awards Professor James Smith a supplemental grant to support his project "The Anthropology of Coltan Mining in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo"

June 19, 2012

Professor Smith receives a supplemental grant of $32,017, for a total of $141,891 towards his research.

Ryan Schacht receives the 2012 Best Poster Prize at the Annual Meeting for Human Behavior and Evolution Society

June 18, 2012

Ryan's poster is entitled "Sex Ratio Effects on Sex Roles: Dads Replace Cads When There Are More Lads" and was honored over 140 competitors comprised of senior faculty to graduate students.

Congratulations to Cristiana Giordano, the 2012-2013 UC Davis Hellman Fellow recipient

June 16, 2012

Professor Giordano will receive $20,000 in support of her research.

Morteza Roodgar, Graduate Group in Comparative Palthology student, was awarded the 2012-2013 Clinical and Translational Science Award Fellowship

June 12, 2012

Morteza Roodgar is mentored by Professor David Glenn Smith. The 2012-2013 Clinical and Translational Science Award Fellowship is funded in part by the UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies and the Howard Hughes Foundation.

Graduate Studies honors Tim Murphy on his recent Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award

June 09, 2012

The Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology is awarded annually to a book or article published in the preceding three years that addresses the psychodynamic process in a cultural context. In receiving the prize, Giordano will join a line of distinguished scholars who have made signal contributions to the field.

Congratulations to Jacob Culbertson for receiving a Dissertation Year Fellowship 2012-2013 from the Davis Humanities Institute

May 29, 2012

CONGRATULATIONS TO ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NICOLAS ZWYNS FOR BEING AWARDED A GRANT FROM THE LEAKEY FOUNDATION!

Professor Smriti Srinivas and her UCSB colleague awarded UCHRI Working Group Award for 2012-2013

May 18, 2012

Professor Srinivas and UCSB Anthropology and History Professor Mary Hancock recognized for their proposal on "Spaces for the Future: Religion in Urban Place-Making." This proposal brings together 10 scholars from the UC System to convene on this issue within the disciplines of Anthropology, African American Studies, Religious Studies, World Arts & Cultures, History and Asian American Studies.

Professor Emerita Dr. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy awarded the 2012 J. I. Staley Prize for her book Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding (Harvard University Press, 2009)

May 14, 2012

RAPID: Coupled Contagion, Behavior-Change, and the Dynamics of Pro- and Anti-Social Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic Award Abstract # 2028160 RAPID: Coupled Contagion, Behavior-Change, and the Dynamics of Pro- and Anti-Social Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic