News & Events
Dr. Sarah Klassen, Assistant Director of the Center for Collaborative Synthesis in Archaeology in IBS and an instructor in the Anthropology Department, will be featured in a NOVA special on PBS!Tune in on January 28 to watch "Angkor: Hidden Jungle
Chilton Tippin (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) has accepted a position as an ORISE Postdoctoral Researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). They will work with the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center at the University of
Yuti Gao (Biological Anthropology, PhD Candidate) awarded funding from the Leakey Foundation for her dissertation research on ancient DNA analyses of microbiomes in African and Eurasian monkeys.听
The GINI (Global Dynamics of Inequality) project (led by Amy Bogaard, Tim Kohler (WSU) and Scott Ortman (CU 抖阴传媒在线)) was awarded a 2025 Shanghai Archaeology Forum research award. GINI is a large-scale international collaboration that culminated in
Yuti Gao (Biological Anthropology, PhD Candidate) and Professor Steve Leigh have published an article titled 鈥淎dvancing Scientific Collection-Based Research With the Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl)鈥 in the American Journal of
Professor Fernando Villanea's Research Featured in Leakey Foundation Article: "The Great Mucus Mystery"New research led by CU 抖阴传媒在线鈥檚 Professor Fernando Villanea traces how a key gene for mucus production was passed from Denisovans to Neanderthals
Professor William Taylor's Moose population research featured on Colorado Public Radio.听Decades of reintroduction efforts have brought moose back from local extinction to a thriving population of ~3,500 across the state.But in places like Rocky
Professor Carole McGranahan was recently interviewed by Lion's Roar to discuss Tibetan reincarnation practices and the critical future succession of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.For over seventy years, the Dalai Lama has been a spiritual leader for
Cristian Figueroa (Archaeology, PhD in Progress) successfully defended his M.A. Paper titled "Interpreting Comca'ac Ceramic Figurines as Materialized Non-Binary Identities." Special Thanks to his committee: Professors听Gerardo Guti茅rrez (chair
Cristian Figueroa (Archaeology, PhD in Progress) presented his research,""Non-binary Ceramic Figurines from Pre-colonial Sonora, M茅xico," at the 2025-2026 AGSA Brown Bag Series on December 2nd.听