When the coronavirus pandemic first hit New Hampshire, many public health leaders worried about the state's rural communities.
"Rites of Passage: The Biology, Psychology, and Culture of Life's Transitions," co-taught by Sienna Craig, associate professor of anthropology, and
Anthropology Associate Professor, Sienna Craig, has received funding for a project to address the rapidly unfolding health, humanitarian, and socioeconomic crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic among communities of Himalayan New Yorkers who live and work at the epicenter of the outbreak. "Structural Inequality and Epidemiological Invisibility: Himalayan New Yorkers Respond to COVID-19" is a collaboration between Dartmouth College, The Endangered Language Alliance, and University of British Columbia.
Professor Zaneta Thayer has been awarded the 2020 Human Biology Association Michael A. Little Early Career Award.
PhD student, Luke Fannin, has been awarded a 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
The paper is titled, "Peer review at the Ministry of Silly Walks" and it is published in the journal Gait & Posture (
Dartmouth's Neukom Institute announced next year's class of Neukom Postdoctoral Fellows, recruited out of a pool of 106 applicants.
Lucy's Brain Was Part Ape, Part Human The famous 3.2-million-year-old Lucy specimen has captivated scientists since it was discovered in 1974.
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