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Announcement

NSF Alan T. Waterman Award - Call for Nominations

Submitted 6 September 2016 by R. Ferrell

The Alan T. Waterman Award is the highest honor awarded by the National Science Foundation. Since 1975, when Congress established the award to honor the agency’s first director, the annual award has been bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated exceptional individual achievement in scientific or engineering research of sufficient quality …

Announcement

A Workshop for Women Biological Anthropologists

Submitted 4 September 2016 by Robin Bernstein

A Workshop for Women Biological Anthropologists: Mentoring and Work-Life Satisfaction Saturday October 8, 2016 - …

Course

Virtual Reconstruction and Computational Biomechanics Workshop

Submitted 30 August 2016 by Dr. Luca Fiorenza

With advances in computer software and imaging technology, Finite Element Analysis has reached a level …

AABA

AAPA 2017 Annual meeting registration and abstract submission now open

Submitted 26 August 2016 by Ed Hagen

Registration and abstract submission for the 2017 annual AAPA meeting is now open:

https://ssl4.westserver.net/birenheide/AAPA/2017AM/registration/index.php

Abstracts are due by Sept. 15, 2016.

AABA

Nominations Sought - Ad Hoc Committee on Contingent/Teaching-Focused/Non-Traditional Faculty

Submitted 26 August 2016 by Susan Antón

The AAPA Executive Committee seeks nominations for the last appointee for a new ad-hoc committee focused on how to better serve and include members in 'non-traditional' faculty/employment positions, including contingent and teaching focused faculty members. The ad-hoc committee is charged with identifying barriers to membership and participation that affect faculty …

Course

New Course: Primates and Predators (India)

Submitted 13 August 2016 by Field Projects International

Field Projects International, a registered non-profit devoted to tropical research and education, will be offering …

Announcement

Digital Standards for Research Data from Human Skeletal Collections – Workshop in Freiburg

Submitted 6 July 2016 by Carolin Hachmann

The Biological Anthropology department at Freiburg University (Germany) is currently developing a digital standard for …

Course

Course Introduction to Geometric Morphometrics in Alberta, SCANADA

Submitted 24 June 2016 by Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno

Registration is open for the course "INTRODUCTION TO GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS- 8th edition".

AAPA members will …

Announcement

Grappling with race during fieldwork

Submitted 22 June 2016 by Jim Bindon

My colleague, Jo Weaver ([email protected]), and I are conducting research into how anthropologists interact with race in fieldwork and teaching. We have a brief survey which should take less than 15 minutes to complete, available at http://tinyurl.com/race-anthro. I am posting this on the AAPA site because we …

Course

R Workshop course!

Submitted 17 June 2016 by Giovanna Vidoli

R Workshop: July 18-22, 2016

Course participants will learn step-by-step procedures to use R and the codes to conduct specific statistical analyses. The course is designed for beginners; however, a basic understanding of statistics is required to adequately grasp the concepts that will be discussed. Following an introduction to R …

Announcement

Bioarchaeology International journal now accepting submissions

Submitted 9 June 2016 by Lauren Phillips

The University of Florida Press is pleased to announce that submissions are now being accepted …

Conference

Primates in Antiquity symposium

Submitted 3 June 2016 by Nate Dominy

Primates in Antiquity was conceived as a satellite event to complement IPS-ASP Chicago 2016. The …

Course

Course 3D Model Generation in Life Sciences, Oct 3-7, Barcelona.

Submitted 16 May 2016 by Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno

Registration is open for the course "3D Model Generation in Biosciences – 2nd edition", October …

Conference

39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology

Submitted 12 May 2016 by Joan Richtsmeier

39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology

August 3rd, 2016 …

Conference

4th Annual Western Bioarchaeology Group Conference (WeBiG) 2016

Submitted 26 April 2016 by WeBiG Planning Committee

WeBiG 2016 Call for Papers-Deadline for Submissions May 1, 2016 Where: Sonoma State University, Rohnert …

AABA

Missed the #AAPAForward 2016 events in Atlanta?

Submitted 25 April 2016 by Susan Antón

If you missed the #AAPAForward 2016 events - productive conversations around sexual and other forms of harassment including a Title IX presentation and discussion and the First Annual Presidential Panel; Working Together to Change the Future: A dialogue on harassment in biological anthropology - you can find storified tweets at …

Course

R Workshop at the Forensic Anthropology Center July 18-22, 2016

Submitted 25 April 2016 by Giovanna Vidoli

The Forensic Anthropology Center at the University of TN is offering a 4 to 5 day short course on introducing the language of R, data munging (manipulation), data visualization, commonly used analyses (discriminant function analysis, linear regression, logistic regression, principal components analysis). We will show how to use these analyses …

AABA

Ethics Committee is now a Standing Committee: Scope & News

Submitted 23 April 2016 by Graciela Cabana

The Ethics Committee is happy to announce that it is now a standing committee, thereby formalizing the scope and mission of the Committee within the AAPA. The Ethics Committee page is available here:

http://physanth.org/about/committees/ethics/

SCOPE The Ethics Committee is a non-adjudicative body whose purpose is to promote ethics literacy among …

AABA

Undergraduate Research Symposium Program 2016

Submitted 10 April 2016 by Marcie Myers

AAPA 85th Annual Meeting

6-8 Pm, Wednesday April 13th, 2016

5:00 pm – Poster Setup …

Conference

CARTA Symposium: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution

Submitted 5 April 2016 by Ingrid Benirschke-Perkins

Join the live webcast! "Ancient DNA and Human Evolution" is the topic of a free …

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