Repost from UNCG NOW Each spring, UNCG celebrates student research by hosting both a graduate and an undergraduate research expo highlighting UNCG students’ cutting edge research. This year’s Carolyn and Norwood Thomas Undergraduate Research and Creativity Expo was March 29, and included a presentation from Jennifer Blackmer, 2015 winner of … Continued
In the news On September 6th, 2015, the Charlotte Observer covered the growing use of geological technology by paleontologists like UNCG’s Dr. Robert Anenome in order to find fossils. The newspaper article follows the growth of hi-tech gadgets in paleontology and how these can enable people working in the field … Continued
Repost from UNCG NOW Dr. Robert L. Anemone, head of UNCG’s Department of Anthropology, is a 2014 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Fellows are chosen by their peers for lifetime appointments. Anemone, who came to UNCG from Western Michigan University in 2013, has been … Continued
Repost from UNCG NOW Paleontologist Robert Anemone’s wrong turn turned out to be a happy accident that led him to a rich cache of 50 million-year-old fossil mammals. That was back in 2009 as he and his team from Western Michigan University explored a remote, 10,000-square-kilometer region of badlands in … Continued
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Arthur Murphy (Anthropology) received a competitive renewal from the NC DHHS Division of Social Services (DSS) for the project “Nutrition Education for New North Carolinians (Recipe for Success in North Carolina)”. Although some immigrants and refugees are able to access certain familiar foods in North … Continued
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Eric Jones (Anthropology) was awarded a one-year National Science Foundation grant titled “Collaborative Research: Cultural Models of Nature Across Cultures: Space, Causality, and Primary Food Producers” for investigating Quichua-speaking agriculturalists’ perceptions of climate change in northern Ecuador. He teamed up with 14 other principal investigators … Continued
Respost from Campus Weekly Dr. Robert Anemone (Anthropology) has been named to the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), where he will serve a three year term (2014-17) as associate editor. With an “impact factor” of 4.094, JHE is the second highest ranked anthropology journal (out of … Continued