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Other News

Merguerite Leone (2013) was featured in the January 2012 issue of SAS Frontiers for her work on preserving Cherokee traditions. Read the article here.

Lauren Kapsalakis (2011) awarded the Society for Economic Anthropology 2011 Harold K. Schneider Student Paper Prize in Economic Anthropology.

Paul Mitchell (2013) named a 2011 Penn McNair Scholars for his work on 'Variation and Evolution in Human Dental Development".

Congratulations to graduate student Derek Newberry on his Wenner-Gren Award for
fieldwork on the politics of sustainability and commodification of Brazilian
biofuels

Read John Jackson's Chronicler Higher Education blog here:  http://chronicle.com/blogAuthor/Brainstorm/3/John-L-Jackson-Jr/82/

 

Hear Richard Leventhal speak on cultural heritage and Penn's outreach effort here: http://www.savingantiquities.org/podcasts.php/podcasts/Leventhal.mp3

Read about the Penn Guatemala Health Initiative here:   http://www.med.upenn.edu/ghi/about

Read an interview with Adriana Petryna about her latest book here:  http://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/SASFrontiers/petryna.html