Department News...
- The speaker for this week's colloquium is Dr. Dennis Stanford from the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institute
- Graduate student John Starbuck featured on Liberal Arts homepage
- Phil Reno's and colleagues' research on the evolution of unique human traits voted in the top ten Science Now of the year 2011
- Sarah McClure co-edits book 10,000 Years of Shoes: Photographs by Brian Lanker
- Sarah McClure's book Learning Technology: Cultural Inheritance and Neolithic Pottery Production in the Alcoi Basin, Alicante, Spain
is published - Adjunct Research Assistant Jennifer Wagner awarded prestigious K99/R00 "Pathway to Independence" Award from NIH
- Lecturer Kirk French Awarded National Geographic Society/Waitt Grant
- Graduate student Johanna Gisladottir Bissat has manuscript accepted for publication in the journal International Migration
- Research Associate Anne Buchanan co-author's paper on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's lifelong illness
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Welcome...
Anthropology is the study of humans and their evolution. It is an inherently multidisciplinary subject, which draws upon information from diverse fields including genetics, geology, psychology, and ecology to shed light on the human condition through time and space.
Are you an undergraduate and wonder what anthropology is all about, and what you can do with it? Look here: http://www.anthro.psu.edu/Student/undergraduate/undergraduate.shtml
Anthropologists at Penn State conduct research and train graduate students in four broad areas:
- The evolution of cultural complexity;
- The evolutionary biology of humans: fossils, bones, bodies, behaviors and genes;
- The ecological context of humans in the past and present; and
- Demography and the responses of human populations to social and environmental changes.
Click here for the faculty research matrix.
Considering graduate school in anthropology? Look at what Penn State offers: http://www.anthro.psu.edu/student/prospective/recruitment.shtml
