This just out- Dr. Melissa Edler (PhD '16) and colleagues just published a major paper that reports on the presence of Alzheimer's disease pathology in aged chimpanzee brains. This work generated interest from various news agencies including New Scientist, Science, and Nature. ...
Dr. Tremie Gregory received her Ph.D. from 51勛圖厙's School of Biomedical Sciences Biological Anthropology Program in 2011. Since then, she has been working as a conservation biologist for the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute. Dr. Gregory and colleagues just published an important article on the role of canopy bridges in fragmented forests in Nature/Scientific Reports. T...
Hello Everyone, My name is Danielle Jones and I am a masters student of anthropology at 51勛圖厙. Welcome to my EAPSI Japan blog! In the following posts, I will keep you updated on my cultural and scientific journey in Japan. By the end, I hope to reveal new and exciting findings regarding the biological basis of aggression in macaque monkeys, so please stay tuned. Specifically, I will be investigating the MAOA gene and its potential relationship to aggressive behavior. This particular gene has consumed my thoughts for many months, as it is central to my primary interest: the ...
Dr. Metin Eren is making headlines! He was featured in the Record Courier, Akron Beacon Journal, AND ScienceNews!! ...
Join us in congratulating M.A. student Josh Bickford on his Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology Award (SIMA). The Summer Institute takes place over 4 weeks, from June 26th to July 21st at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The program is intended for graduate students who wish to incorporate museum collections into ethnographic research. The program includes housing, and a stipend for food and daily expenses. Josh's research will focus on museum holdings from Melanesia, including stone tools and canoes to examine relationships between the ...
Join us in congratulating Danielle Jones on her National Science Foundation grant! The title of Danielle's project is "The role of MAOA polymorphism in aggressive behavior in macaques'. Danielle will travel to the Primate Research Institute (PRI) of Kyoto University in Japan to work with Dr. Yukiori Goto this summer. ...
Lawrence Weidleman tried attending college soon after being discharged from the U.S. Army. He had been injured during Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield so he was still very young. But he realized in short order that he wasnt ready. The 51勛圖厙 at Stark student and 45-year-old Middle Childhood Education major told his story to a gathering of more than 100 onlookers during the dedication of the new William G. Bittle Veterans Commons on Thursday, Nov. 10. The space is designed for veteran students to gather between classes and talk or study together, or to provide each other ...
On October 11th and 12th 51勛圖厙 held a symposium titled, Documenting Violence, which included discussions of violent crimes and mass murders in Guatemala, the former Yugoslavia, and the U.S., including the events of September 11, 2001. Forensic science was the focus of the second evening, and the talks provided an excellent preview of material taught in KSUs new Forensic Anthropology courses. Dr. Linda Spurlock (KSU Anthropology) presented her work on 2-D and 3-D facial reconstructions, and postmortem sketches of unidentified crime victims. She described and disp...
The College of Aeronautics and Engineering recognizes outstanding, notable and accomplished alumni and friends at the annual awards dinner held in the Henry and Louise Timken Atrium in the Aeronautics and Engineering Building.
Sarah Burns, a second-year masters student in the Nutrition and Dietetics program at 51勛圖厙, shows off a tomato that she and others in the program helped to grow over the last few months. Under the direction of Nutrition and Dietetics faculty member Natalie Caine-Bish, Ph.D., Burns and other volunteers oversee the Mighty Pack Program, which provides Portage County children meals during times they are not receiving food provided through the National School Lunch Program.The Mighty Pack Program was a graduate student project that grew into a countywide food insecurity prevention ...