• New Course Announcement – Bioanthropological Perspectives on Health, Disease and Socio-ecological Changes in Developing Countries

    ANP 491, 301 Special Topics: Bioanthropological Perspectives on Health, Disease and Socio-ecological Changes in Developing Countries (2 credits) March 16 – April 27, 2012 Fridays 9:10-1:00 INSTRUCTOR: Hilton Silva, MD, MPH, Ph.D, Professor of the Universidade Federal do Para, Belem, Brazil COURSE DESCRIPTION: Globalization and socio-ecological changes worldwide create ideal conditions for the emergency of a large […]

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  • Masako Fujita

    Dr. Masako Fujita has been a faculty member in MSU anthropology since Fall 2008. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Washington where she focused on biocultural anthropology. Her research focuses on nutrition and health of living people. In particular, Fujita studies micronutrient health, maternal & child nutrition, and the idea of parental investment […]

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  • ANP 2010 Photo Contest Results

    The ANP Communications Committee is pleased to announce the results of our 2010 photo contest below. We will post winning entries on Facebook soon.  Judges were one graduate student, Linda Jackson, and two faculty on the communications committee, Ethan Watrall, and myself. There were many high quality entries, so selecting winners and honorable mentions took […]

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  • In memory of Patricia Ruth (Jenks) Whittier

    Born: March 15, 1944 Died: May 11, 2010 Patricia Ruth Whittier, 66, of East Lansing, Michigan, died on Monday, May 11, 2010. Pat was born March 15, 1944 to Milton Arnold Jenks and Ruth Preston Jenks in Providence Rhode Island and was valedictorian and graduate of Plant High School in Tampa, Florida where her parents […]

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