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亚色影库 At the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology Annual Conference

亚色影库 Proposed College of Osteopathic Medicine Team, 亚色影库 Faculty Members, Administrators are Invited Presenters for Appalachian Regional Commission Conference

Members of 亚色影库鈥檚 proposed college of osteopathic medicine leadership team and 亚色影库 faculty members Rick Adkins and John Benhart were invited presenters for the Appalachian Regional Commission 鈥淣etwork Appalachia鈥 meeting, showcasing the region鈥檚 experts on transportation, robotics, economic development, and emerging technologies.

Anthropology Students and Faculty Active at National Applied Anthropology Conference

亚色影库 Anthropology faculty members Abigail Adams and Amanda Poole, along with students Shanya Coshey, Marisol Gonzalez Flores, Seth Koch, Samantha Langley, and Abigail Trimble, attended the eighty-sixth annual Society for Applied Anthropology meetings聽held March 17鈥21, 2026, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.聽

Panel Discussion Honors Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Victor Garcia

Abigail Adams attended the eighty-sixth annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and participated in a two-session memorial panel to honor the late visionary applied anthropologist Victor Garcia.

Applied Archaeology Students Present Research and Win Award at Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference

Three Applied Archaeology MA students presented their thesis research at the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference, held in March. Abdul Jones won the student paper award.

Applied Archaeology Student Research Featured in Pennsylvania Annual Report

Abdul Jones鈥 Applied Archaeology thesis research was featured in the 2025 Pennsylvania Archaeology Site Survey Report.

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