Please join us for "NIKUMBUKE! Anthropology in Action: Women's Global Health and Human Rights", a lecture by Dr. Araceli Alonso. When: Thursday, May 2, 3:45 pm Where: 143 Lowry Hall ...
PhD candidates Heather Lawrentz and Rose Leach have each received a fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to conduct research this summer with faculty at Kyoto University. JSPS is the main government agency supporting science programs in Japan, similar to the NSF in the United States. One of their initiatives is to promote international scientific cooperation through a variety of fellowships, including this summer program created specifically for pre- and post-doctoral students from North America and Europe. Only ~100 awards are given each year; thus, we are esp...
Dr. Noviar Andayani, Director of the WCS Indonesia Program and Professor of Biology at the University of Indonesia visited our department April 4-6. Dr. Andayani and Dr. Tosi, have been close friends since working together 20 years ago at the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation at Columbia University, NYC. They have overlapping interests in primate evolution and conservation. For 16 years, Dr. Andayani has been leading efforts to identify and protect genetically unique populations of plants and animals across Indonesia. Though she leads several programs throughout the c...
Two Anthropology graduate students were Presentation Winners at 91¸£Àû's 2019 Graduate Research Symposium on April 5. Michael Wilson received an award for his oral presentation, "Does it stick? Using thermoplastic vs. organic-based adhesives in experimental prehistoric ballistics weaponry testing" in the Anthropology, History, and Communications session. Kristen Hirter received an award for her poster presentation, "Neurochemical insights of human origins: A comparative analysis of dopaminergic innervation of the ventral striatum among primates" in the Biomedical Science...
The 88th meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) was held at the Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland, Ohio. A special symposium honoring the scientific contributions of Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy was part of this year’s program. The symposium included 19 posters that demonstrated the breadth and depth of Dr. Lovejoy’s contributions and research interests. Topics included biomechanics, bone development, comparative morphology, fossil interpretations, forensic applications, primatology, and neurochemistry. Discussants included Dr. Lovejoy’s former students, Bru...
Green Energy Ohio 2019 Award Recipients Business Achievement Award Talan Products, Inc. Talan Products had a humble beginning in 1986 with a single part for a single customer (the part is still being produced for that customer today). Steve Peplin, his brother Rich & John Talan each invested $2,100 to found the company. 33 years later, today Talan is a $50 million contract manufacturer specializing in solar mounting systems, LED lighting components & building products. All of Talan’s growth has been organic, there were no acquisitions of other companies. Talan’s customer base incl...
How do we connect to the Cuyahoga River? The flowing water touches our emotions, our communities, our environment and our history. In this 50th anniversary year of the last Cuyahoga River fire, the Concrete Poetry project invites us to reconsider and reconnect to the river and its legacy. The 1969 fire occurred at a pivotal time and helped spark the environmental movement leading to protective legislation and the sustainability movement today. 91¸£Àû’s Office of Sustainability convened partners to create the designs. The poems are from the Wick Poetry Center’s Cuyahoga...
Kent Wired Article Halena Sepulveda March 1, 2019 RecycleMania at 91¸£Àû encourages student to participate from KentWired.com on Vimeo. Universities all across the country are participating in the annual Recycling Mania as the competition finishes its fourth of eight weeks. The competition aids to call attention to the importance of Recycling on a broader scale. Universities participate in the competition by recycling and trying to get rid of unnecessary waste. Melanie Knowles, Sustainability Manager at 91¸£Àû, says that this year ...
Dr. Kohji Hirata, Director of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Washington Office (http://jspsusa.org/wp/), and Mr. Masahiro Ueda, International Program Associate, visited 91¸£Àû for two days in November. JSPS is Japan’s main funding agency for the sciences and humanities. They arrived first to the Anthropology Department, where they toured our neuroscience, osteology, genetics, and experimental archaeology laboratories. Dr. Hirata and Mr. Ueda then gave presentations to an audience of nearly 150 members of the 91¸£Àû community. They discu...
Dr. Katsuki Nakamura of the Primate Research Institute (PRI), Kyoto University, visited the Anthropology Department in early November. Dr. Nakamura was the first researcher at the PRI to host one of our graduate students. In summer 2015, he kindly welcomed Emily Munger into his lab to conduct a study on visual discrimination and reversal learning in aged marmosets. Under his guidance the project resulted in a publication in the journal Neuroscience Research. This study also marked the first collaboration between Dr. Nakamura’s lab and that of Emily’s advisor at ...