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亚色影库 Cejka Planetarium Offering Program About Total Lunar Eclipse and Program on How Humanity Has Learned to Live in Space

亚色影库鈥檚 Cejka Planetarium in John J. and Char Kopchick Hall will host a program about the next total lunar eclipse on February 24, 鈥淏lood Moon: Total Lunar Eclipse,鈥 and a presentation titled 鈥淲orking from the Final Frontier: How Humanity has Learned to Live in Space鈥 on March 25.

亚色影库 Anthropology Presents at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Conference

亚色影库 anthropology faculty and students attended and presented at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA, in February.

Free Planetarium Show "Blood Moon: Total Lunar Eclipse"

The Cejka Planetarium show for February is 鈥淏lood Moon: Total Lunar Eclipse,鈥 about the upcoming lunar eclipse in early March.

Professor of Anthropology Presents Program on Medical Anthropology to 亚色影库 Proposed College of Osteopathic Medicine Steering Committee, Team

亚色影库 professor of anthropology Abigail Adams presented a program on medical anthropology, disease theory systems, and the Appalachian region, of which Indiana is included, to the leadership team and steering committee of 亚色影库鈥檚 proposed college of osteopathic medicine.

AGES Students Named to Fall 2025 Dean鈥檚 List

The Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Department congratulates our students for being named to the Dean鈥檚 List for fall 2025. Students receive this recognition for each semester in which they earn a GPA of 3.25 or higher while taking a minimum of 12 credits.

Hawks at Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology

AGES faculty and students presented recent research at the Society for Historical Archaeology and the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology annual meetings in Detroit.

AGES Students Named Provost Scholars

The Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences congratulates our students named as 亚色影库 Provost Scholars.

亚色影库 Student Wins Pennsylvania Historical Association Prize

Applied Archaeology graduate student, Emma Lashley won the 2025 Pennsylvania Historical Association Magruder-Newman Prize for Best Student Paper Presentation

亚色影库 Archaeology Goes North and South

Students and faculty from the Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences participated in the annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology annual meeting in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

Recent and Upcoming Presentations on Johnstown Area Archaeology

Brown's Farm was a racially integrated settlement near Johnstown that was inhabited from the early nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Abdul Jones is presenting a series of talks on his thesis research at the site.

Warnock Publishes on Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Jonathan Warnock, Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences, published with co-authors on the Antarctic Circumpolar Current during the last interglacial.

Anthropology Department Hosting Annual Archaeology Open House on Oct. 11

The Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences at 亚色影库 will hold its annual Community Archaeology Day on October 11 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in celebration of International Archaeology Day.

亚色影库 Co-Sponsors Historic Preservation Workforce Summit

The 亚色影库 Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Science, Department of History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religious Studies, and the Office of Carer and Professional Development partnered with the State Historic Preservation Office and Shippensburg University to host a day-long summit in Harrisburg.

亚色影库 Cejka Planetarium Offering Programs About Rubin Telescope, Recalling the Space Race

亚色影库鈥檚 Cejka Planetarium in John J. and Char Kopchick Hall will host two programs during the fall semester: 鈥淎 New Eye: The Rubin Telescope鈥 on September 29 and 鈥淩ecalling the Space Race鈥 on October 29. Both programs will begin at 7:00 p.m. The presentations are free and open to the community.

AGES Faculty Publish on Workforce Readiness

Applied Archaeology faculty in the Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Department joined colleagues from across the nation in an article on archaeology workforce readiness.

John Taylor Contributes to New Study on the Northern Cordillera

Professor Emeritus John Taylor, along with colleagues, published a new study that provides insights into the geologic evolution of central Yukon, Canada, over 500 million years ago.

Poole Publishes on Migration Deterrence and Refugee Decision-Making

Dr. Amanda Poole, Professor of Anthropology, co-authored a peer-reviewed article titled 鈥淪mugglers vs. Students: Migration Deterrence and Understandings of Risk Among Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia.鈥

Free Planetarium Show "A New Eye: The Rubin Telescope"

Ken Coles will present 鈥淎 New Eye: The Rubin Telescope!鈥, a planetarium show about the newly opened Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

Poole Publishes on Migration, Human Rights, and Global Refugee Policy

Amanda Poole, Professor of Anthropology, published a feature article in The Migration Information Source titled 鈥淪evere Repression in Eritrea Has Prompted Decades of Exodus.鈥

Ford Appointed to Maryland Historical Trust Board of Trustees

Ben Ford, faculty in the Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences, was recently sworn in as a member of the Maryland Historical Trust Board of Trustees. He is filling the submerged archaeology position on the board.

Cejka Planetarium Announces Fall 2025 Schedule

亚色影库鈥檚 Cejka Planetarium has announced the fall 2025 schedule.

亚色影库 Forensic Science Major to Begin Accepting Students for Fall 2025

亚色影库 will launch a new forensic sciences major for fall 2025.

Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Credits 亚色影库 Team with Assisting in World War II Pilot Identification

On July 11, the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency distributed a news release about the identification of a World War II soldier who died in December 1944, crediting the work of an 亚色影库 field school in assisting in identifying the late soldier鈥檚 remains.

亚色影库 Alumna Selected for Fulbright Award

Kayla Anthony, a recent graduate of 亚色影库, originally from Johnstown, has been selected for a Fulbright post-graduate study award.

亚色影库 Anthropologists Conducting Field School in Germany at Site of WWII Plane Crash

亚色影库 has been selected by the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency through the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Inc. to continue its field study in Germany at the site of a December 1944 crash of a World War II B-17 airplane.