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MSU News Features “How to ‘Hack’ Grad School”
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Just six months after launching, a virtual forum started by a group of Michigan State University graduate students has become the first of its kind to contract with a leading higher-education publication. GradHacker.org was started by grad students Katy Meyers and Alex Galarza to help their cohorts “hack” grad school one blog […]
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The Detroit Free Press Features the Michigan State University Nubian Bioarchaeology Laboratory
The Detroit Free Press recently featured the Michigan State University Nubian Bioarchaeology Laboratory, which houses over 400 medieval Nubian skeletons on loan from the British Museum. A team of graduate students from MSU joined the archaeological excavation in Sudan before the completion of the Merowe Dam, which flooded the region. Graduate and undergraduate researchers, interns, […]
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Heather Howard Receives Grant to Study Diabetes in First Nations Communities
In 2010-2011, Dr. Howard led a collaborative research project with the One Nation in Unity Youth Program of the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto and local Aboriginal diabetes educators to gather the perspectives of Aboriginal persons living with diabetes in Toronto, and of providers of health and social services which impact diabetes prevention and management […]
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MSU Scientists Identify Brucellosis in Ancient Skeletal Remains
For the first time, researchers have found brucellosis in ancient skeletal remains. In collaboration with Albanian archaeologists at the site of Butrint, MSU Anthropology’s Dr. Todd Fenton confirmed the presence of this infectious disease in medieval bones. Brucellosis, still a problem in modern Mediterranean countries, presents very similar skeletal pathology to tuberculosis, but DNA samples analyzed […]
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2012 Morton Village Fieldschool Currently Accepting Applications (Deadline 4/27/12)
The Morton Village Fieldschool is current accepting applications – with a deadline of April 27th, 2012 The MortonVillage Fieldschool focuses on the Morton Village Site, a late prehistoric village in the central Illinois River Valley near Lewistown, Illinois. This cooperative project with the Illinois State Museum focuses on the A.D. 1300-1400 community associated with a period […]
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Sean Dunham Recipient of 2012 SAA Student Paper Award
The Department of Anthropology is very pleased to announce that PhD Candidate Sean Dunham has been chosen as recipient for the Society for American Archaeology 2012 Student Paper Award for his paper entitled Late Woodland Landscapes in the Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan. ABSTRACT: This explores pre-European settlement ecosystems in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Pilot studies have […]
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University Relations Faculty Conversations: Andrea Louie
Dr. Andrea Louie, Director of the Asian Pacific American Studies program and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, talks with university about her research on the adoption of Chinese children by American parents. To read the story and watch Dr. Louie’s video interview, visit http://news.msu.edu/staff-faculty/story/10270 [photo copyright: MSU University Relations] […]
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GSA’s Silent Auction
The GSA is looking for awesome, unusual, and/or beautiful treasures to feature in this year’s Silent Auction. If you would like to donate a treasure, please bring the item to 412 Baker Hall anytime between 9-5pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays or contact Sylvia (deskajsy@msu.edu) to make other arrangements. We need your donations to make this […]
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Saints’ Rest Project Receives Governer’s Award
One of six Governor’s Awards for Historic Presevation was presented to MSU for the Saints’ Rest Archaeological Project on May 18, 2006.
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Book Award: Chineseness Across Borders: Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States
Andrea Louie’s book Chineseness Across Borders: Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States (Duke University Press, 2004) received the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in the category of Social Sciences for titles published in 2004.