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Friday Bulletin January 31, 2020

Awards Arianne Boileau has just been awarded NSF funding for her dissertation research, “Identifying Household-level PoliticalEconomy on the Maya/Spanish Frontier through Zooarchaeology.” Congratulations, Arianne! FASA Colloquium This afternoon we have two talks, sponsored by FASA.  Dr. Kelly Sams will present her talk “Disease X: An Anthropological History,” which will be followed by Alex Lowie, who will present his paper […]

Friday Scrapbook January 24, 2020

Upcoming Lectures and Talks We have two upcoming FASA lectures: Today, we have a lecture from Douglas Trent, titled ““Jaguars and Professional Opportunities.”  Trent is an ecologist by training and the executive director of the Instituto Sustentar (https://institutosustentar.net/) and the Research Director of the Pantanal Wildlife Program (www.bichosdopantanal.org).  He will be speaking about his jaguar […]

Friday Scrapbook January 17, 2020

Awards Section Please join me in congratulating Brittany Mistretta, who has been awarded a UF Thompson Earth Systems Institute (TESI) Lifelong Learner’s Grant for her proposal titled “Florida Archaeology and Arts in Medicine: Exploring the Art and Environment of Early Native Florida in Hospital Outreach”. Drawing on Florida archaeological collections curated at the Florida Museum and in […]

Friday Scrapbook January 10, 2020

Workshops at the Center for Teaching Excellence The Center for Teaching Excellence is dedicated to keeping faculty, staff, and teaching assistants connected and informed. Our goal is to help build a community of faculty members from all fields working together to share ideas and resources, to strengthen teaching, and maximize learning.  Workshops are open to both faculty […]