Faculty and Staff Honors & Awards
Dr. Ervan Garrison receives “Rip Rapp” award from the Geological Society of America
2011
Feb
The award is given by the archaeological geology membership in recognition of outstanding contributions to the interdisciplinary field of archaeological geology, and is named for the first recipient of the award.
Julie Velásquez Runk Awarded Multi-Agency Grant to Preserve Endangered Language
2010
Jun
Julie Velásquez Runk has been awarded a grant through the Documenting Endangered Languages program, a partnership between the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. This program supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of an estimated half of the 6000-7000 currently used human languages, this effort aims also to exploit advances in information technology. The main goal of Dr. Velásquez’s project is the documentation of Wounmeu, the language of the Wounaan, an indigenous people who inhabit eastern Panama and northwestern Colombia. She has worked with the Wounaan for 13 years and will work with collaborators from other U.S. universities; between them, they have collected sixty years of recorded myths and legends from Colombia and Panama from which to work. The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) will participate in the partnership as a research host, a non-funding role.
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Student Honors & Awards
Madalena Monteban and Asher Rosinger win 2011 University of Georgia Graduate School Dean’s Awards
2012
Jan
Two anthropology graduate students who both devote some focus to medical anthropology have each been awarded the University of Georgia Graduate School Dean's Award.
Madalena Monteban, whose Andean region research has focused on the relationship between ethnoecological knowledge and health, and Asher Rosinger, who views the relation of water and childhood health in Bolivia in terms of economic decision making, were selected from an extremely competitive pool of applicants to receive this $1,000 research award. Madalena's major professors are Drs. Virginia Nazarea and Susan Tanner; Asher's major professor is Dr. Susan Tanner.
Alice Fazlollah receives Best Graduate Student Paper Award at state-wide conference
2011
Mar
Alice Fazlollah, a student in the M.S. program of Archaeological Resource Management, recently received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Georgia Academy of Science, Anthropology Section. The conference was held on Friday and Saturday, March 25 and 26th, 2011, in Gainesville, Georgia. The title of Alice's paper was "Comparison of Age-At-Death Estimation Methods Using Data from a Georgia Bureau of Investigation Sample and the William M. Bass Donated Skeletal Collection." Alice is completing her M.S. with an emphasis on forensics studies under the mentorship of MariaTeresa Tersigni-Tarrant.
Dr. Jared Wood, Archaeology Lab Manager, says, "Alice's paper was great and certainly one of the most professional ones given in our section."
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