five years. Pipeline NAU started with the 1998-99 school year. Students who finish the program receive a four-year full scholarship to Northern Arizona University. Awards and honors In 1997, Small received a grant from the National Science Foundation to model and simulate Polynesian social systems. She received the American Anthropology Association/Oxford University Press Award for Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology for the 2008-09 academic year. She also received the Praxis Award for Excellence in Applied Anthropology. For her work with Pipeline NAU, Small received the National Points of Light Award, the Arizona Governor's Special Recognition, and the Best Educational Practices in Post-Secondary Education in the State of Arizona Award. Personal life Small is unmarried and does not have children. She practices Judaism. She has practiced vipassana meditation for more than twenty years and has taught meditation since 2010. She teaches meditation at the Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community in Flagstaff, Arizona. Each semester, she also co-teachers a six-week-long mindfulness course at Northern Arizona University for faculty, staff, and community members. Selected publications As Cathy A. Small "The Birth and Growth of a Polynesian Women's Exchange Network." Oceania, vol.65, no, 3 (1995) pp. 234–256. Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs (Cornell University Press, 1997) "Finding an Invisible History: A Computer Simulation Experiment in Virtual Polynesia." Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation vol. 2, no. 3 (October 31, 1999) TongaSim (built using C++). Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs 2nd edition (Cornell University Press, 2011) The Man in the Dog Park: Coming Up Close to Homelessness. with Jason Kordosky and Ross Moore. Cornell University Press, 2020. As Rebekah Nathan My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student (Cornell University Press, 2005) References Other sources Jaschik, Scott. "Undercover Freshman - Review and Open Forum, including feedback from Cathy Small" Inside Higher Ed American women writers American anthropologists Living people 1949 births 21st-century American women