The Doctors Are In! Milestone Achievement for Students and Department Josh Zaffos This spring, Kelton Meyer, Ph.D. and Zoey Walder-Hoge, Ph.D. became the first-ever Anthropology Ph.D. students graduated from Colorado State University. The individual achievements also represent a department landmark as the first two students to complete the Anthropology doctoral program since it launched in […]
Food has always been the great unifier. We gather around the table and work things out by breaking bread. For students in Colorado State University archaeology/anthropology instructor Emily Wilson’s class, food is teaching them a lot about what has – and hasn’t – changed in the past 2,700 years.
CSU Associate Professor of Geography Heidi Hausermann and colleagues have won a $1.537 million National Science Foundation grant to study the health, social and environmental effects of rapidly expanding, small-scale gold mining and mercury pollution in Ghana and beyond.
In June, a NASA-funded team of Colorado State University researchers traveled to Kenya to unveil a new interactive, online tool to help land managers and foresters working in Kenyan and African forests.
The impacts of wildfire can be devastating, but the widespread nature of those impacts and their full costs to society are still being researched.
Colorado State University paleoanthropologist Michael Pante talks about this important discovery, what it means for future fossil research, and what was it that led our early ancestors to eat each other.
The research is the first application of the 3D quantitative method — developed and published by CSU professor Michael Pante in 2017 — to a fossil specimen.
As part of her senior Honors thesis, Dr. Snodgrass’ Colorado State University Honors Program student, Madison Brandt, has created and self-published an ethnographic cookbook. For this book, Madison cooked with and interviewed the people and chefs of Fort Collins (both professional and non-professional) to document their food, recipes, lives, communities, and culture. The book really captures […]
As appearing in CSU SOURCE | 10.9.19 CSU anthropologist: History offers lesson about decline of large mammals Tony Phifer The effect of the extinctions of numerous large mammal species around 12,000 years ago is still being felt today and could provide a preview of what’s to come as several existing large mammal species find themselves […]
As appearing on CLA SOURCE | 05.10.19 The College of Liberal Arts Celebrates University Distinguished Faculty The College of Liberal Arts is celebrating the accomplishments of our professors as they become University Distinguished Faculty. Three professors have recently accepted 2019 University awards ranking their performance among the highest and most outstanding that Colorado State University […]
