Beverly Chiarulli, graduate student Marion Smeltzer, and alumnus Lisa Dugas presented papers at the Mid-Atlantic Archaeological Conference, March 23–25, 2012. Smeltzer also presented at the Appalachian Studies Conference on March 24 at IUP.

IUP Archaeological Services and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation have extended their partnership for five years. This is the fifth partnership agreement between the two state agencies and will allow IUP faculty and students to assist PennDot with artifact curation, in-house surveys, public outreach, and geophysical investigations.

Research by Anthropology professors Sarah Neusius and Beverly Chiarulli and graduate students have been featured in the journals Carnegie and American Archaeology, in the AASCU newsletter, and on the Allegheny Chapter of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology’s website.

Victor Garcia, of the Department of Anthropology and the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Research and Training Institute, presented “Immigration and Farming: Latino Farmers, Food Production, and Economic Contributions” at the Siglo XXI Conference on February 23–25, 2012.