SUNY Binghamton Biomedical Anthropology

04/08/2019

From left to right, Kimberly Raymond and Danielle Julien presented a second poster at this years AAPA meetings. The data for this research was collected from their internships this past summer.
This research was conducted on two populations from Prehistoric Chile. The vertebral columns from 99 individuals were analyzed to understand the differences between agricultural and hunter-gatherer societies. Great work!

04/08/2019

Masters students, (from left to right) Danielle Julien, Kimberly Raymond, and Brandon Wolfson, presented on their findings at the AAPA conference this year.
The second cervical vertebrae of 44 individuals were studied to determine the accuracy of the Wescott (2000) s*x estimation method on a middle aged to senescent population. This project was supported by an award from the National Institute of Justice.

04/02/2019

Recently accepted to BU's PhD program in the anthropology department, and soon to graduate from the biomedical anthropology program with her masters, Diana Gibson is pursuing research in maternal health among an ancient population of the Andes.

Biomedical anthropology graduate student explores maternal health

04/01/2019

How will you spend your April fools?

Where is here exactly? Here is a tired, eye-roll inducing pseudo-holiday that we endure with a grimace every year. Hopefully you have room for one more article about April Fools’ Day.

03/27/2019

We are pleased to announce our first, in a series of three, career development workshops for students in the Biomedical Anthropology program here at Binghamton University on April 5th at noon in RM 112. This workshop will focus on translating academic skills, gained in the program, into workplace skills which can be incorporated into more effective resumes and cover letters. All students are required to attend and we encourage our alumni to join us and offer their knowledge and experiences. Lunch will be provided!

03/18/2019

Calling all local alums and alums willing to drive to BU**

We are reaching out to invite you to participate in a networking and professional development workshop for our alumni and current master's degree students. We want to create an opportunity for local grads to connect, and for current students to get advice about internships and the job search from those with first-hand knowledge. If you are interested in joining us for a networking lunch, please use the link to fill out the Doodle poll to indicate which days you are available to participate.

Dear BU Biomed Alumni, We are reaching out to invite you to participate in a networking and professional development workshop for our alumni and current master's degree students. We want to create an opportunity for local grads to connect, and for current students to get advice about internships and...

03/05/2019

Research finds that community attitudes can influence individual decisions about vaccine use.

Families learn to be skeptical about vaccines in communities where incomplete vaccination is the norm. A researcher into the phenomenon found that people are ready to listen, if they're heard, too.

02/18/2019

In a rare move, Britain is considering returning the remains of the Rhodesian Man, the earliest human fossil found in Africa, to its home country.

02/04/2019

Thanks to a two-year grant of $370,153 from the National Institute of Justice, Dr. Janna Andronowski and her lab can research the effects of one of our country's costliest and fastest-growing epidemics--opioid addiction--on bone remodeling, the body's continuing process of formation and destruction....

01/31/2019

A cave once occupied by Neanderthals and Denisovans has provided further evidence that humans were not the only ones creating symbolic artifacts.

Researchers have deduced which early human species occupied Denisova Cave and when, drawing surprising conclusions about who made the sophisticated artifacts found there

01/22/2019

From 4th to 8th February 2019 Karen T Taylor will conduct the Workshop "Forensic Art: Drawing to Depict the Deceased for Identification" at the Forensic Anthropology Center of Texas State University. We are so looking forward to her valuable lessons!

01/22/2019

Separate skeletons suggested to be from different early hominin species are, in fact, from the same species, a team of anthropologists has concluded.