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 family who join 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 is back from Alaska where heavy clouds prevented him and Pete

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. Don’t forget a photo ID to be

admitted to the building!

5 September: “What I’m Working On” current faculty and student research

presentations. Friday noon to 1 pm, 807 Oldfather.

6 September: Loren Eisely’s 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!

Department of Anthropology

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