When the coronavirus pandemic first hit New Hampshire, many public health leaders worried about the state's rural communities. Smaller towns tend to have more elderly patients and fewer health care resources. Some doctors warned that even a small number of cases could overwhelm the region's hospitals.
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"Rites of Passage: The Biology, Psychology, and Culture of Life's Transitions," co-taught by Sienna Craig, associate professor of anthropology, and Manish Mishra, MED '05, Geisel '08, a psychiatrist and assistant professor at the Geisel School of Medicine, became its own rite of passage as faculty and students grappled with the disruption of the global pandemic and the sudden shift to remote learning. Read the
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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.
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Professor Zaneta Thayer has been awarded the 2020 Human Biology Association Michael A. Little Early Career Award. The award, established in 2013, recognizes a member of the Human Biology Association, in the early years of her or his career, for a significant contribution to the field of human biology and the promise of future significant contributions.
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PhD student, Luke Fannin, has been awarded a 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is the country's oldest fellowship program that directly supports graduate students in various STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity.
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