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  • Karolina Krelinova '14 Wins Runner-Up Chase Peace Prize

    November 25, 2014

    The Anthropology Department congratulates anthropology major Karolina Krelinova ’14, who has been awarded the 2014 Runner-Up Prize by the John Sloan Dickey Center’s Chase Peace Prize committee. Each year, the Dickey Center awards the Peace Prize and Runner-Up Prize to senior theses or culminating projects that address “the subject of war, conflict resolution, the prospects and problems of maintaining peace, or other related topics”

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  • What Americans Can Learn From a Vial of Tibetan Spit

    November 20, 2014

    In an article for Pacific Standard, Associate Professor Sienna Craig discusses the discovery of distinct genetic traits among Tibetans living at high altitude, how these traits can inform advances in medicine, and the challenges of communicating medical science across cultures.

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  • Miriam Kilimo ’14 Named Rhodes Scholar

    November 12, 2014

    The Anthropology Department extends warm congratulations to Miriam Jerotich '14 of Nairobi, Kenya, who has been named the 76th Rhodes Scholar in Dartmouth's History. As an Anthropology major, Miriam plans to use the scholarship to pursue a master's degree in women's studies at Oxford.

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  • Art Sheds New Light on the Ecology of Ancient Egypt

    October 1, 2014

    Dartmouth biological anthropologist Nathaniel Dominy and his colleagues provide elegant insight into ancient Egyptian ecology in their most recent study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

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