Victor Garcia, director of the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training Institute, copublished Barriers Faced by Hispanic Students Transferring from Community Colleges to University: An Ethnographic Approach.

Three current M.A. in Applied Archaeology students, Jason Espino, Seth Van Dam, and Ashley Brown, were recently published in North American Archaeologist, and recent graduate Jonathan Libbon published a portion of his thesis in Pennsylvania Archaeologist.

Students in Amanda Poole’s Cultural Ecology class worked with and interviewed local and state organizations dealing with issues of sustainability in Indiana County.

Anthropology professor Beverly Chiarulli has published an article titled “Producers, Conmsumers, and Traders: Lithic Industries at Cerros and Chau Hiix, Belize” in the fall 2012 issue of Lithic Technology. Alumna Erica Ausel also has an article in the issue, presenting research she completed for her honors thesis at IUP.

Students Amanda Balough, Kathryn Edmondson, Taralyn Federoff, Katherine Fox, Sean Herald, Gabrielle Lehigh, Kelly Muthler, Chloe Stevens, and Bryana Urban presented.

Marion Smeltzer, graduate student in the Anthropology Department MA in Applied Archaeology archaeological outreach specialist for IUP Archaeological Services, provided lesson plans and resources for teachers at the Pennsylvania Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting in Hershey on November 29-30.

Sustainable Indiana is a new partnership between Anthropology, the Center for Appalachian Studies, and the Coalition for a Healthy County. Come watch a film and learn about the project at the Indiana Theater on December 6.

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission featured the IUP Late Historic Project, a long-term research focus of the Anthropology Department investigation of villages dated between A.D. 1000 and 1500, in its weekly blog on archaeology projects around the state.