In September 2012, Beverly Chiaurlli, Ben Ford, Sarah Neusius, and Phil Neusius (Anthropology) and Scott Moore (History) received a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation award for the purchase of an IDS Stream X Multiple Array Ground Penetrating Radar Unit and a Leica ScanStation C-10.

Anastasia Hudgins presented "Money Talks, Health Walks: Discourses Framing Fracking in Rural Pennsylvania” in San Francisco on November 15, 2012.

Amanda Poole presented "Envisioning Engagement: Fostering Community Dialogue on Fracking through Participatory Film" in San Francisco on November 15.

Anthropologist Ben Ford was recently elected to the Society for Historical Archaeology Board of Directors. He will officially begin a three-year term as a director during the Society’s 2013 annual meeting in Leicester, Great Britain.

Victor Garcia, anthropologist and director of the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training Institute, presented papers at two conferences in the past few months.

Archaeologist Beverly Chiarulli and graduate students Meghan Pace and Seth Van Dam conducted ground penetrating radar and gradiometry surveys of archaeological sites near Chambers, Arizona, from November 5 to 11, 2012.

Bernard Means, an archaeologist and expert on the Late Prehistoric Monongahela culture of southwestern Pennsylvania, will give a lecture for IUP Anthropology’s Graduate Colloquium at 5:00 p.m. on November 8, 2012.