The March 3rd hackathon event hosted by the 17cҳ Student Chapter for American Computing Machinery-Women and the Research Center for Education Technology (RCET) provided a day full of STEAM opportunities for 30 girls from 11 different middle and high schools in Summit, Portage & Tuscarawas counties. The day kicked off with Alicia Robinson, Executive Director and Founder of Limitless Ambition, and Xyla Foxlin, CEO and Founder of Parihug and the YouTube page Beauty and the Bolt, speaking about what inspires them as young women and giving advice to the group about achieving success. G...
Dr. Metin Eren and PhD student Michelle Bebber were featured on Discovery Channel's Daily Planet show Watch the video here (it is the first story of the segment, beginning at ~ the 1 minute mark) ...
Please join us in congratulating our graduate students on their awards! Four of our graduate students received awards from Graduate Student Senate (GSS). Michelle Bebber, PhD student, received an International Travel Award to go to Paris this summer to present her research project called "Untapped Potential – Why weren’t ceramic arrowheads invented? Theoretical Morphology for Understanding the Human Past” at the "Integrating Ballistics into Archaeology" symposium at UISPP which is a global conference for the International Union of the Prehistoric and Protohistoric Scienc...
Rick Feinberg Named Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Anthropology in Czech Republic Richard (Rick) Feinberg, Professor of Anthropology, has been named Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Anthropology at Palacký University Olomouc in the Czech Republic. Dr. Feinberg will spend spring semester 2019 with the Department of Sociology, Andragogy, and Cultural Anthropology in the University’s Faculty of Arts, where he will teach courses in cultural and social theory and American culture. The theoretically-focused course will be designed for advanced graduate students in the anthropology program...
Dr. Feinberg wrote an editorial on the topic of Chief Wahoo in 1999 that is even more relevant today. The column was reprinted in today's Akron Beacon Journal. Read the story here ...
We are excited to announce our new Medical Anthropology Minor (active Fall, 2018) Medical anthropology is the fastest growing sub-discipline of anthropology with a variety of applications. It is a broad field that includes medical and psychiatric anthropology, global health, disability, social suffering, humanitarianism, death and dying, caregiving, public health, medical ethics, human rights and medical humanities. Course Requirements: Required: ANTH 18210 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 3 cr ...
Update Investigators received a tip after the forensic sketch was circulated, and the identity of the boy was confirmed by family members. The little boy was Eliazar Ruiz, 4 years old. Read the latest on Fox8 News. Fox8 News interviewed Dr. Linda Spurlock who provided a forensic sketch of the 4 year old boy. Officials are hoping someone will be able to identify the boy. For the full story, click here. ...
Researchers at 17cҳ find evidence that an early shift in brain chemistry may have given our earliest ancestors an edge- Read the full story here. Also covered in Science Magazine PNAS articles: A neurochemical hypothesis for the origin of hominids by Raghanti et al. Early hominids may have been weed species by Meindl, Chaney, and Lovejoy ...
Fox8 News interviewed Dr. Linda Spurlock who provided a forensic sketch of the 4 year old boy. Officials are hoping someone will be able to identify the boy. For the full story, click here. ...
The research of 17cҳ archaeologist Dr. Metin Eren was featured in the Columbus Dispatch. For the full story- click here ...