EEES graduate student, Grant Gutierrez, is one of twenty environmental scholars who have been chosen as 2021 recipients of the Switzer Environmental Fellowship, a program of the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation that awards emerging environmental leaders a cash award and leadership training to support their graduate studies and career development at universities in New England and California.
Desert locusts Schistocerca gregaria are threatening the food security of millions of people and devastating economies in eastern Africa and northern India. The ongoing outbreak is the largest in seven decades. These events give us cause to reflect on the natural history of locusts, our fraught relationship with them, and how they are represented in American popular culture and others.
Dartmouth alumna, Anjali M Prabhat and EEES PhD candidate, Kate Miller are lead authors of a newly published anthropology paper titled, "Homoplasy in the evolution of modern human-like joint proportions in Australopithecus afarensis."
An analysis of fecal samples shows New England rural elites had parasitic infections.
Dartmouth archaeologists have been awarded a Neukom Institute CompX grant to support remote sensing of ancient settlements in the Upper Connecticut River Valley.
A "New York Times" reviewer writes that in DeSilva's new book, "First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human," the associate professor of anthropology "proposes that our bipedalism is at the root of our uniqueness as a species ... neatly braiding his own research with the wider narrative and history of human evolution."
Researchers trace the age of a Mount Holly mammoth rib fragment from Mount Holly, Vt.
Professor Nathaniel Dominy finds evidence of ancient Egyptian trade routes.
Dale Eickelman is honored and recognized for his exceptional service to the field of Middle East Studies.
Maron Greenleaf has been awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
