Department News...
- John Starbuck accepts post-doctoral research position at IUPUI School of Dentistry
- Nina Jablonski to give presentations at the American Museum of Natural History on May 2nd and 3rd
- Nina Jablonski receives Guggenheim Fellowship Award
- Graduate student John Starbuck successfully defends his doctoral dissertation on craniofacial morphology in Down syndrome
- 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
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Welcome from Department Head George R. Milner
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
