Department News...
- Nina Jablonski has been named to the Board of Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences
of the National Research Council - Adjunct Professor Pat Shipman receives additional news coverage on her hypothesis for human evolution
- Adjunct research associate Maggie Zraly accepted a new position as Visiting Assistant Professor
in the Department of Anthropology at Miami University of Ohio for the 2010-2011 academic year - Postdoc scholar Colin Shaw has paper published in the Journal of Human Evolution
- Postdoc scholar Colin Shaw has paper published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (AJPA)
- Research Associate Neus Martínez-Abadías' paper accepted for publication in Developmental Dynamics
- Tim Ryan receives NIH grant for in vivo CT scanner
- LiveScience posts a piece on adjunct professor Pat Shipman's Current Anthroplogy article
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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 as seen in the archaeological record;
- The evolutionary biology of humans, involving studies of fossils, bones 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
