Larkin earns National Park Service grant
Department of Anthropology faculty member Karin Larkin recently earned a grant from the NPS to develop an interpretive masterplan for the site of the Ludlow Massacre. (More)
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Fielding cows and dust devils in southern Colorado
Remote work takes on a new meaning for UCCS anthropology students in the summer – several of whom are participating in a field course in southern Colorado. (More)
Research Q&A with Tara Cepon Robins and Courtney Manthey: Female Athletes and PCOS
We take a deeper dive into Tara Cepon Robins and Courtney Manthey’s research on PCOS in female athletes. (More)
Commencement Feature: Learning about humanity, and herself | Seiva Cunningham
When Seiva transferred to UCCS from CSU Pueblo towards the end of the pandemic, she was undecided on major, unsure of her place at the university, and “just hoping it would work out.” (More)
LAS professors receive Henry Luce Foundation grant
Three professors in the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences were recently awarded an impressive grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. (More)
UCCS receives large donation of ancient stone tools
UCCS recently received an impressive collection of stone artifacts from the Paleolithic age. (More)
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)