UCCS receives large donation of ancient stone tools
UCCS recently received an impressive collection of stone artifacts from the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages. (More)
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Smith earns Fulbright to continue anthropological research
Kimbra Smith, Associate Professor of Anthropology, is preparing to return to Ecuador for a second time as a Fulbright Scholar. (More)
Intestinal parasites found in Mississippi children “embody” inequality
New research from Tara Cepon-Robins, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCCS, shows another way that poverty “lives” in the body: intestinal parasites. The rural Mississippi children she studied showed intestinal inflammation rates 17 times higher than Indigenous children in Amazonian Ecuador. (More)
Wynn and Coolidge co-author “An Introduction to Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology”
Thomas Wynn, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, and Fred Coolidge, Professor of Psychology, have co-authored the first concise introduction to the evolutionary cognitive archaeology discipline. (More)
7 Questions with Colin Wren, author of “Agent-Based Modeling for Archaeology”
Colin Wren, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCCS, answers seven questions on his new book, which introduces archaeologists and digital humanities researchers to a new technique for modeling the complex interactions of past societies. (More)
Examining climate change of the past can reveal strategies to survive in the future
New research co-published by Colin Wren, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCCS, illustrates a new, multidisciplinary approach to studying how humans have responded to climate threats in the past, and demonstrates that these strategies can be adapted to modern contexts. (More)
Karin Larkin on creating a historic preservation plan for campus
Watch the faculty feature video to learn more about Dr. Larkin’s research and how archeology can help us navigate the present by learning from the past (More)
Faculty Feature: Dr. Kimbra Smith, associate professor of anthropology
As a cultural and applied anthropologist, her theoretical research focuses mostly on empathy and different kinds of persistent inequalities in society whilst her applied work focuses on equity and shifting communities away from discrimination. Watch the video to learn more about Dr. Kimbra Smith and the research she’s conducting at UCCS. (More)
Dig into the archaeology of the Cragmor Tuberculosis Sanatorium
In the March 18 virtual lecture, learn about the hundreds of flamboyant writers, artists and Broadway performers who “chased the cure” for tuberculosis all the way to Cragmor Sanatorium in Colorado Springs. (More)
Cepon-Robins: A healthy sense of disgust can keep you from getting sick
Cepon-Robins was the lead researcher on the first study in its field to directly test whether people who are more sensitive to feeling disgust will become exposed to fewer pathogens – and thus suffer fewer infections. (More)