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Dr.
Marilyn Norconk spent the summers of 2005 and 2006 in Suriname leading
a team studying community-wide frugivory patterns in
Brownsberg Nature Park, a 12,000 ha tropical forest
reserve that supports diverse flora and fauna. The focus
of the research project, which involved graduate students
from Kent State and Oklahoma Universities, was on the
study of such primate species as white-faced sakis,
bearded sakis, tufted brown capuchins, black spider
monkeys, red howler monkeys and gold-handed tamarins,
as well as a variety of large frugivorous birds. Dr. Norconk continued this program in Suriname in Spring 2007 while on a research leave.
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Dr.
T. Kam Manahan presented the sponsored lecture "Cambios y confllictos en la region Cupul: Resultdos preliminaries de la temporada 2006 en Xuenkal, Yucatan" at Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya in Campeche, Mexico. |
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Recent
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Dr. Marilyn A. Norconk: "Sakis, uakaris, and titi monkeys: Behavioral diversity in a radiation of primate seed predators" in the volume Primates in Perspective edited by C.J. Campbell et al., eds. Oxford University Press (2007).
Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy: "The natural history of human gait and posture. Gait and Posture 25(3):325-341 (2007).
Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy: "Growth plate formation and development in alligator and mouse metapodials: evolutionary and functional implications" with P. Reno, W. Horton and R. Elsey. Journal of Experimental Zoology 308B:1-14 (2007).
Dr. Richard Feinberg: "Early European-Polynesian contact reenacted: Anutan "handling" of a foreign fishing vessel. American Ethnologist 33(1):114-125 (2006).
Dr.
Mark Seeman: "The mounded landscapes of Ohio: Hopewell patterns and placements" with J. Branch in the book Recreating Hopewell, D. Charles and J. Buikstra, eds. University Press of Florida (2006).
Dr. Olaf H. Prufer: Caves and Culture, an edited volume with L. Spurlock and T. Pigott. Kent State University Press (2006).
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Dr. Mark Seeman continues his work with a core of avocational archaeologists from Canton, Ohio excavating and analyzing the 11,000-year old Nobles Pond Paleo-Indian site, one of the oldest in the region. When faced with impending development and the destruction of the site, KSU got involved. The
Fall 2004 issue of the Kent State University Alumni Magazine
carries a story on this long-term project. Nobles Pond represents a great cooperative connection linking
KSU faculty, students, local volunteers, and the Canton-area
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Dr. Linda Spurlock will offer a summer field course in "Forensic Archaeology" to begin June 11 for the Summer I term, 2007. This course will use archaeological and forensic techniques to describe, analyze, and develop conclusions on a mock crime scene. Fundamentals of decomposition and forensic entomology will also be addressed. Contact information: lspurlock@starkstate.edu. |
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Kudos
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Maria Serrat,Ph.D. student, won the Scholander Award for her poster at the meeting entitled "Comparative Physiology 2006: Integrating Diversity" sponsored by the American Physiological Society.
Maria Serrat,Ph.D. student, won the Juan Comas Prize for outstanding student presentations at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists for her presentation "Effects of rearing temperature on long bone growth in mice: an experimental model for examining Allen's rule."
Phil
Reno, recent Ph.D. graduate, was awarded a 3-year post-doctral fellow in Developmental Genetics at Stanford Univeristy.
Kelly Foxworthy (left) and Elizabeth Konwest (right), anthropology seniors, were recently honored by the College of Arts and Sciences and received Distinguished Student Leader awards. They were accompanied to the ceremony by Dr. Manahan (center) of the department.
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