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1 SEPTEMBER 2014 Congrats!
News
Events and Deadlines
Fun Fact
In this digest: Congrats! Congrats to affiliate Dr. Matt Douglass who has been awarded a 3-year Challenge grant by the USDA Nebraska National Forest to develop an integrated experiential and outreach educational program with the National Grasslands Visitor Center (NGVC).
News Welcome to Dr. Heather Richards-Rissetto and her fami l y who joi n us from the University of New Mexico via various stops in Europe and most recently Middlebury College in Vermont. Dr. Richards-Rissetto is offering an advanced course in Digital Heritage this Fall. Welcome also to Dr. Wayne Babchuk. Dr. Babchuk is the winner of multiple teaching awards here at UNL. He excels in qualitative methods and is on call through the university community designing studies to collect high quality information about those funny animals we call humans. He is teaching a Qualitative Methods course along with Ecological Anthropology this term. Affiliate Dr. Ted Hamann (Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education) is back from Tallinn, Estonia where he attended the European Association of Social Anthropologists biennial meeting. With doc student Aprille Phillips, he presented a paper titled: "How Helpful Is the Concept Third Culture Kids? School Affinities and New Geographies With Four Sort-of Dominicans." Continuing their study of alpine cairns on Baranof Island, affiliate Dr. Ralph Hartley i s back f rom Al aska where heavy cl ouds prevented hi m and Pet e Stegen (NET) from collecting the cameras they had placed there to capture time sequence images. Hoping the weather breaks soon. Department post-remodeling continues. This week, the new Bioanth Lab (807 Oldfather) will be outfitted with a screen and whiteboard and the Digital Anthropology Lab (808 Oldfather) will be painted and wired. And, with her staff, Kathy Hellwege will be unpacking the main office.
Events and Deadlines EVENTS September is Celebrate Nebraska Archaeology Month! Various events and activities are slated to occur throughout the month. 5 September: Visit the Open House at the NPS Midwest Archaeology Center (Federal Building, 15th and P) this Friday. Dont forget a photo ID to be admitted to the building! 5 September: What Im Working On current faculty and student research presentations. Friday noon to 1 pm, 807 Oldfather. 6 September: Loren Eiselys 107th Birthday, celebrated at Meadowlark Coffee and Espresso (17th and South), 1pm. Dr. Eisely graduated from UNL in 1933 with a BA in English and a BS in Geology/Anthropology. He completed graduate degrees in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and eventually returned there to teach. His first and best known book, The Immense Journey (1946), established him as a writer with the unique ability to illuminate science with humanism and humanism with science. DEADLINES 2 September: Last day for late registrations and course additions; last day to drop course and receive a 100% refund. 5 September: Last day to drop course and receive a 75% refund.
Fun Fact Classics and other humanities majors perform best on the LSAT (the placement exam for law students), according to an analysis by Derek Muller (April 2014), The Best Prospective Law Students Read Homer. As students of the most humane of the sciences, Anthropology students also perform very well, outperforming pre-Law students, for example, and their social science peers. All that critical thinking and writing about complex subjects has a payoff!
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