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U of A Historian Justin Gage Wins Smithsonian Book Award
Justin Gage, assistant professor of history, was awarded the Smithsonian National Postal Museum's Professional Scholarship Prize for his book, We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us: Native Networks and the Spread of the Ghost Dance. The biennial prize recognizes...
Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities Students Join to Discuss Serious Games
At the end of the spring semester, two courses — WLLC 398V Videogames and Human Agency and JWST 470/570V Special Topics in Jewish Studies: How Did the Holocaust Affect...? — held a joint class meeting to discuss how Germany's Nazi past has affected the arts, primarily...
Researcher at CAST Uses Satellite Imagery to Investigate Ancient Urbanism in Eastern Africa
At the U of A's Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, Wolfgang Alders, a National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Fellow, is using satellite imagery and archaeological methods to better understand the origins of urban life on the eastern African Swahili Coast,...
Department of Theatre Assistant Professor David Reed Earns Title of ‘Fight Director’
Assistant professor David Reed has been awarded the title of "Fight Director" from the Society of American Fight Directors. Receiving the award earlier this year, he became the 71st individual worldwide with the same title, 65 of whom are currently practicing....
NSF Awards $630,000 to Study Teeth of Non-Human Primates
The National Science Foundation awarded $630,444 to Kathleen Paul, an assistant professor of anthropology at the U of A, to provide a comprehensive outline of dental genetic architecture for two primate species of tamarins and macaques. Paul's research team’s...