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More Student Opportunities: Academic Diversity Fellowship & LGBT Health Summer Institute

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Dinah

The NASA listserv continues to circulate great opportunities for anthropology students. They’ve recently featured Penn’s Postdoctoral Fellowships for Academic Diversity. Successful candidates will receive highly mentored scholarly and research training as well as courses and workshops to enhance their research skills and prepare them for a faculty position in a major university. PhD between 2007 [...]

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ASHG Report Notes Genetic Ancestry Testing Concerns

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Dinah

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has published a new white paper (access limited) on the challenges of genetic ancestry testing, explaining and expanding on recommendations made in a 2008 ASHG policy statement on the topic. ASHG notes that “increasing public interest in Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) genetic ancestry testing has been accompanied by growing concern [...]

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Chicago Human Rights and New Sciences Event, 5/14-15

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Dinah

For our Chicago-area readers, the Human Rights and the New Sciences Symposium is being held today and tomorrow, through the University of Chicago’s Human Rights Program and Department of Anthropology. Attendance is open to the public with online registration. The symposium seeks to explore how “rapid developments in scientific knowledge and technologies have been challenging [...]

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Student Opportunities on the AAA Website

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Dinah

The AAA website is a great resource for students seeking info on upcoming meetings, funding, field schools and more. Did you know the American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation will host the Student Conference on Conservation Science in New York, Nov 3-5? This is a great opportunity for grad students, post-docs, [...]

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Access Ethnographic Video Online Free through May 31

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Dinah

Alexander Street Press is offering free sneak peek access to Ethnographic Video Online through May 31, 2010, allowing viewers to stream hundreds of classic and contemporary ethnographic films. The collection features video focusing on economic systems, food and foraging, kinship and families, conflict resolution, and more. The press notes, “Wherever possible, videos include accompanying field [...]

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Professors Beyond Borders Grows after April Launch

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Dinah

The new non-profit Professors Beyond Borders reports that is has expanded by nearly 200 members since its April 26 launch. The group was conceptualized by US Dept. of State-sponsored Fulbright New Century Scholars with the goal “to create a network of highly-trained, academically oriented volunteers available to assist with specific projects related to sustainable development… [...]

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An Extended Interview with Michael Brian Schiffer

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Dinah

This month’s Archeology Division column in Anthropology News features an interview by James M Skibo with Michael Brian Schiffer, Riecker Distinguished Professor at the University of Arizona. Schiffer will be the AD Distinguished Lecturer at the November AAA Annual Meeting. Get to know him a bit more by reading the extended dialogue below. Comments and [...]

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AAUP Releases 2009-10 Report on Faculty Salaries

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Dinah

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has announced the release of No Refuge: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2009-10. The AAUP website notes, This year’s report discusses faculty salaries in the context of turbulent financial times and suggests that faculty salaries are concrete indicators of institutional priorities. Mandatory furloughs, [...]

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Volunteer for National Lab Day, May 12

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Dinah

NSF Director Arden L. Bement has posted a message encouraging “all members of the wider National Science Foundation community to actively involve themselves improving our nation’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education enterprise by volunteering as part of National Lab Day.” This might mean volunteering in a classroom on National Lab Day (May 12), [...]

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AAAS Adopts Statement “On the Human Right to the Benefits of Scientific Progress”

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Dinah

On Friday, April 16, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Board of Directors adopted a statement “On the human right to the benefits of scientific progress.” To read the full statement, please click on the “read more” link below. Information about current AAAS activities in this area is available online, via their [...]

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