UNL ANTHRO DIGEST

A weekly digest brought to you by the UNL Department of Anthropology

1 SEPTEMBER 2014
Congrats!

News

Events and Deadlines

Fun Fact

In this digest:
Congrats!
Congrats to affiliate Dr. Matt Douglass who has been awarded a 3-year
Challenge grant by the USDA Nebraska National Forest to develop an
integrated experiential and outreach educational program with the National
Grasslands Visitor Center (NGVC).


News
Welcome to Dr. Heather Richards-Rissetto and her fami l y who joi n us
from the University of New Mexico via various stops in Europe and most
recently Middlebury College in Vermont. Dr. Richards-Rissetto is offering an
advanced course in Digital Heritage this Fall.
Welcome also to Dr. Wayne Babchuk. Dr. Babchuk is the winner of multiple
teaching awards here at UNL. He excels in qualitative methods and is on call
through the university community designing studies to collect high quality
information about those funny animals we call humans. He is teaching a
Qualitative Methods course along with Ecological Anthropology this term.
Affiliate Dr. Ted Hamann (Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education) is
back from Tallinn, Estonia where he attended the European Association of
Social Anthropologists biennial meeting. With doc student Aprille Phillips, he
presented a paper titled: "How Helpful Is the Concept Third Culture Kids?
School Affinities and New Geographies With Four Sort-of Dominicans."
Continuing their study of alpine cairns on Baranof Island, affiliate Dr. Ralph
Hartley i s back f rom Al aska where heavy cl ouds prevented hi m and Pet e
Stegen (NET) from collecting the cameras they had placed there to capture
time sequence images. Hoping the weather breaks soon.
Department post-remodeling continues. This week, the new Bioanth Lab (807
Oldfather) will be outfitted with a screen and whiteboard and the Digital
Anthropology Lab (808 Oldfather) will be painted and wired. And, with her
staff, Kathy Hellwege will be unpacking the main office.

Events and Deadlines
EVENTS
September is Celebrate Nebraska Archaeology Month! Various events and
activities are slated to occur throughout the month.
5 September: Visit the Open House at the NPS Midwest Archaeology Center
(Federal Building, 15th and P) this Friday. Dont forget a photo ID to be
admitted to the building!
5 September: What Im Working On current faculty and student research
presentations. Friday noon to 1 pm, 807 Oldfather.
6 September: Loren Eiselys 107th Birthday, celebrated at Meadowlark
Coffee and Espresso (17th and South), 1pm. Dr. Eisely graduated from UNL
in 1933 with a BA in English and a BS in Geology/Anthropology. He
completed graduate degrees in Anthropology at the University of
Pennsylvania and eventually returned there to teach. His first and best known
book, The Immense Journey (1946), established him as a writer with the
unique ability to illuminate science with humanism and humanism with
science.
DEADLINES
2 September: Last day for late registrations and course additions; last day to
drop course and receive a 100% refund.
5 September: Last day to drop course and receive a 75% refund.


Fun Fact
Classics and other humanities majors perform best on the LSAT (the
placement exam for law students), according to an analysis by Derek Muller
(April 2014), The Best Prospective Law Students Read Homer. As students
of the most humane of the sciences, Anthropology students also perform very
well, outperforming pre-Law students, for example, and their social science
peers. All that critical thinking and writing about complex subjects has a
payoff!


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