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News and Events
- Lecture Series, "Health Outcomes of Inter-community Violence in Three Northern Kenyan Pastoralist Communities," Dr. Bilinda Straight, Associate Professor of Anthropology. Sponsored by the Diether H. Haenicke Institue for Global Education. Monday, March 12, 2028 Brown Hall, 3 to 4:30 p.m.
- Artificial intelligence joins the fossil hunt The traditional image of the fossil-hunting palaeontologist - traipsing across parched badlands armed with nothing but hand tools and a sharp eye - may be in for an overhaul. Artificially intelligent software that scans satellite images of potential dig sites could greatly increase the number of fossils unearthed.
Robert Anemone, professor, and Glenn Conroy, a palaeoanthropologist at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, wanted to improve the odds of success.
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We are pleased to share the latest issue of the Participant Observer where we have compiled information on what has been happening in the department as well as provide updates on many of our successful former students.
The four field and integrative approach to the study of the human condition central to the Western Michigan University Department of Anthropology. Classes include:
Our department takes very seriously the mission of anthropology to study humans in all their dimensions. Our faculty and students are committed to the practice of anthropology as a critical social science that both appreciates human diversity and challenges global inequities.
