David Vanier, a recent graduate in Biological Anthropology with honors in Asian Studies, will leave for a year-long stay in Japan starting in late July to teach English through the Japanese Exchange and Teaching Programme. He will be an assistant language teacher, working in conjunction with Japanese teachers of English in local schools. Candidates for this program, run by the Japanese Ministry of Education, are selected through a rigorous six month application process which includes an interview at the Japanese Embassy. David plans to apply to medical school and eventually go into primary care medicine upon his return to the U.S.
May 2011 Archives
New alumna Brenda Frazier (PhD, May 2011) has accepted a post-doctoral research and
teaching position as a College Fellow in the Department of Human Evolutionary
Biology at Harvard University. She will be based in the lab of Department Chair
Dan Lieberman.
Congratulations Brenda!!
Congratulations Brenda!!
Nina Jablonski will give a lecture
entitled, "Human Skin Pigmentation, Migration, and Disease Susceptibility"
on Tuesday 7 June as part of the Royal Society meeting, "Human evolution, migration and history
revealed by genetics, immunity and infection". Further information on the
meeting can be found at: http://royalsociety.org/human-evolution/.
Nina Jablonski will give a seminar entitled,
"Human Skin Pigmentation: Its Evolution and Consequences for Disease", to the
Biology Department at Stanford University on Monday 23 May.
On April 28, 2011 John Starbuck, Chris Percival, Logan
Kistler, and Jen Haney hosted approximately 60 people who were participating in
the Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. Participants were introduced to
fossils, fossil casts, tools, and other artifacts to see how biological
anthropologists and archaeologists discover information about human prehistory.