Three Applied Archaeology MA students presented their thesis research at the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference, held in March. Abdul Jones won the student paper award.
Abdul Jones’ Applied Archaeology thesis research was featured in the 2025 Pennsylvania Archaeology Site Survey Report.
IUP’s Cejka Planetarium in John J. and Char Kopchick Hall will host a program about the next total lunar eclipse on February 24, “Blood Moon: Total Lunar Eclipse,” and a presentation titled “Working from the Final Frontier: How Humanity has Learned to Live in Space” on March 25.
IUP anthropology faculty and students attended and presented at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA, in February.
The Cejka Planetarium show for February is “Blood Moon: Total Lunar Eclipse,” about the upcoming lunar eclipse in early March.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania professor of anthropology Abigail Adams presented a program on medical anthropology, disease theory systems, and the Appalachian region, of which Indiana is included, to the leadership team and steering committee of IUP’s proposed college of osteopathic medicine.
The Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Department congratulates our students for being named to the Dean’s List for fall 2025. Students receive this recognition for each semester in which they earn a GPA of 3.25 or higher while taking a minimum of 12 credits.
AGES faculty and students presented recent research at the Society for Historical Archaeology and the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology annual meetings in Detroit.
The Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences congratulates our students named as IUP Provost Scholars.
Applied Archaeology graduate student, Emma Lashley won the 2025 Pennsylvania Historical Association Magruder-Newman Prize for Best Student Paper Presentation
Students and faculty from the Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences participated in the annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology annual meeting in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
Brown's Farm was a racially integrated settlement near Johnstown that was inhabited from the early nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Abdul Jones is presenting a series of talks on his thesis research at the site.
Jonathan Warnock, Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences, published with co-authors on the Antarctic Circumpolar Current during the last interglacial.
The Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences at Indiana University of Pennsylvania will hold its annual Community Archaeology Day on October 11 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in celebration of International Archaeology Day.
The IUP Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Science, Department of History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religious Studies, and the Office of Carer and Professional Development partnered with the State Historic Preservation Office and Shippensburg University to host a day-long summit in Harrisburg.
IUP’s Cejka Planetarium in John J. and Char Kopchick Hall will host two programs during the fall semester: “A New Eye: The Rubin Telescope” on September 29 and “Recalling the Space Race” on October 29. Both programs will begin at 7:00 p.m. The presentations are free and open to the community.
Applied Archaeology faculty in the Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Department joined colleagues from across the nation in an article on archaeology workforce readiness.
Professor Emeritus John Taylor, along with colleagues, published a new study that provides insights into the geologic evolution of central Yukon, Canada, over 500 million years ago.
Dr. Amanda Poole, Professor of Anthropology, co-authored a peer-reviewed article titled “Smugglers vs. Students: Migration Deterrence and Understandings of Risk Among Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia.”
Ken Coles will present “A New Eye: The Rubin Telescope!”, a planetarium show about the newly opened Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
Amanda Poole, Professor of Anthropology, published a feature article in The Migration Information Source titled “Severe Repression in Eritrea Has Prompted Decades of Exodus.”
Ben Ford, faculty in the Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences, was recently sworn in as a member of the Maryland Historical Trust Board of Trustees. He is filling the submerged archaeology position on the board.
IUP’s Cejka Planetarium has announced the fall 2025 schedule.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania will launch a new forensic sciences major for fall 2025.
On July 11, the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency distributed a news release about the identification of a World War II soldier who died in December 1944, crediting the work of an Indiana University of Pennsylvania field school in assisting in identifying the late soldier’s remains.