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Bonnie N. Young, M.A., M.P.H., doctoral candidate in Anthropology, will address the socio-cultural factors related to active tuberculosis (TB) risk, and people's disease experience in Monterrey, Mexico in the Ruth E. Kennedy Lecture at the Hibben Center ...

The University of New Mexico's Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Union (AGSU) presents the 15th Annual AGSU Symposium on Friday-Saturday, Feb. 25-26 in the Hibben Center on the UNM Main Campus. The event is free and snacks and dinner will be ...

A new exhibit at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, "Chaco Uncovered: The Field Schools 1929 to the Present" will open on Wednesday, Feb. 9 with a gallery talk and reception from 5 to 7 p.m. The gallery talk will be by National Park Service ...

Maxwell Museum will present a lecture "The Ice Age Caves - Theaters of Illusion" on Saturday, February 12 at 1 p.m. in the Hibben Center on the UNM main campus.In the great majestic ice age cave of Niaux, located near the French town of Foix, there is ...

UNM Professor of Anthropology Les Field and a colleague Cristobal Gnecco, professor, Department of Anthropology, Universidad del Cauca in Colombia, have organized an international professional event in Colombia titled, "Illicit Excavation, Archaeology, ...

The Center for Public Anthropology has recognized students from Professor Keith Prufer's Anthropology 101 class who participated in a North American competition. The students wrote on "Who should be the beneficiaries of anthropological research?" Their ...

Dick Blau, professor of film and photography at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee will speak on the Skyros Carnival on Thursday, Dec. 2 at 4 p.m. in Hibben Center, Room 105.Blau will discuss the way Greece's Skyros islanders hold a yearly mirror to ...

Melinda A. Zeder, director of the Archeobiology Program at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution will lecture on Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 163 of the Anthropology Building on the UNM Main Campus.She will discuss the ...

A book of essays about the history of New Mexico has won a national award from The American Association for State and Local History. Regents Professor of Anthropology Marta Weigle, New Mexico History Museum Director Frances Levine, and UNM alumni Louise ...

A new field season in Uxbenká is in progress for Keith Prufer, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology. Every summer he takes students to the lowlands of Belize to study what was a small but flourishing Mayan city in the 10th century. This year, ...