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Armstrong County officials are awaiting confirmation from President Obama's office for a Small Business Administration Disaster Declaration to provide assistance for victims of the Aug. 28 floods.
The declaration would allow victims to apply for low-interest loans to help cover the cost of flood damage, according to Randy Brozenick, director of public safety.
Brozenick said county officials identified 25 homes or businesses with at least 40 percent of their flood damage not covered by insurance, an assessment required by the SBA for the declaration. The county sent a report to Gov. Tom Corbett's office on Friday, which was approved.
"We filed the paperwork, and it went right through," Brozenick said. "Until I get the paperwork back, we just have to wait."
Although he hopes to receive approval soon, Brozenick said, there is no definitive timetable.
Brozenick said more than 200 homes were affected by flooding, but the damage was not enough to qualify for Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance.
The Red Cross assisted 10 families, made up of 21 people, with shelter, and 12 families, made up of 39 people, with food. Clothing was provided to 32 people.
Residents would be able to apply for low-interest loans through the SBA. The administration would advertise loan availability and set up a regional office, likely in the courthouse, for applicants, he said.
Anyone with questions about the SBA Disaster Declaration can call Brozenick at 724-548-3431.
Brad Pedersen is a staff writer for Trib Total Media.
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WINDMILL ALMANAC 2012: Two years of drought has plagued farmers and ranchers
The 2011 and 2012 drought have set new records for West Texas, but as I look back over the 50-plus years of my agricultural journalism career, the most recent drought is just another one common to our region.
This one compares to the seven year drought of the 1950s, but we haven't had the dust storms in the middle of the day which turned daylight to darkness as in the 1950s. However, now that I think about it, I have seen West Texas go through seven or eight droughts between the 1950s and 2012.
Checking back in the Standard-Times archives, I located a Windmill Country column I wrote 35 years ago that almost mirrors recent times… "Just plain droughty."
On an autumn weekend, my family and I had spent the weekend at our Caparrosa Ranch on Copperas Creek in Kimble County. I had make a round in the pasture on horseback to discover little to no grass going into winter and only scattered holes of water in a creek that always ran in normal years. Fed by springs, both East and West Copperas flow into the North Llano River.
"The powder-dry dirt in the draws and valleys of the Hill Country are moving on to another county with every whirlwind which passes and the rocks are showing like ribs on a poor horse," I wrote Oct. 11, 1977.
"My mount ate at a persimmon bush as we rode through a clearing, and most disturbing of all are the falling leaves from the Spanish oak tree before they turn their usual deep brownish-red of autumn. Many of the native pecan trees had already lost most of their leaves and nuts back in September."
History tells us that droughts have been recorded as a problem in Texas since Spaniards explored the region.
According to Texas State Historical Association records, one of the worst droughts in Texas history occurred in 1884-86, causing most of the farmers to fail and to return to the East. In later years official detailed recordkeeping makes possible a better understanding of the geographical distribution of droughts.
Drought occurs when an area receives, in a given year, less than 75 percent of its average rainfall. Since the Chihuahuan Desert, the second largest of the American deserts, covers a good part of West Texas, go figure!
Drought in this region of the Southwest is a constant, only to be broken by short periods of infrequent rainfall events, said Mark Svoboda, with the National Drought Mitigation Center, at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
Such an event occurred the weekend of September 29-30 when 6 inches to as much as 14 inches of rainfall came to parts of the Concho Valley. Much of the runoff spilling into O.H. Ivie Reservoir came from tributaries around Paint Rock, including the Concho River, which peaked at 27.5 feet. It bought us some time, but much more rain is needed to break the drought.
Weather folks were placing new hope with the return of El Nino this fall and winter. However, while visiting with Jason Johnson, hydrologist at the National Weather Service at San Angelo Regional Airport, he tells me each recent conference call with associates gives reference to "a weakening El Nino."
El Nino is influenced by Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a variation in non-equatorial sea surface temperatures, and fueled by meteorological conditions in the equatorial Pacific region.
History records drought years in each of ten geographical areas of Texas in 100 years between 1892 and 1992. The Trans-Pecos and Edwards Plateau had 17 drought periods during those years. There has been at least one serious drought in some part of the Lone Star State every decade of the twentieth century.
Severe dryness began in 1917 and peaked in 1918 before rebounding to wetter than normal conditions.
In a recent issue of National Geographic magazine, Bill Tullos recalled the 1950s drought, the most catastrophic one affecting every part of the state in the first two thirds of the 1950s.
Tullos, who has ranched most of his life at Arden, about 20 miles west of San Angelo, was interviewed for a story last year during the 2011, which climatologists called the worst one-year drought since Texas rainfall data started being recorded in 1895.
"My grandfather bought this ranch and I grew up in the ranching business. I was a year old when my parents, George Monroe and Maggie McMeen Tullos, came to the ranch in 1924," Bill told me.
Both Little Rocky Creek and the Middle Concho River run through the Tullos Ranch. They started flowing in the 1970s following extensive mesquite eradication on the ranch.
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For seven years, Toby Basner really hasn't had a home. He says he lives in Snellville, but it's a house shared with his brother and two friends. He really lives on the roads and skies between the small cities that dot the United States.He started in Florida, was promoted to towns like Danville, Va., and Greenville, S.C. Then it was trips between Rome and Lexington, Ky. Another job advancement returned him to the Carolinas and he then spent two years canvassing Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama. He spent a few winters in the Dominican Republic and last year traveled the West coast from Memphis to Portland to Colorado and New Mexico. The Brookwood graduate now traipses up and down the East Coast from Buffalo to Durham, N.C., Louisville, Norfolk, Va., and near his home in Lawrenceville. He spends his days traveling or killing time and his nights dressed in blue, focused on baseball. "We are constantly on the road," said the seven-year umpiring veteran, who is calling Gwinnett Braves games this weekend at Coolray Field. "We never really have a home. "I can step back and look that I am making a living being on a baseball field every day. I am completely satisfied with that. I have always enjoyed doing what I am doing. That is the main thing in life: Be happy with who you are and what you are doing." A blue from the start Basner started umpiring long before he considered any career. His father, Alan, booked umpires at Bethesda Park and started sending his son out to call games at age 12. "I just did it for extra money at the time," Toby Basner said. "My dad was always umpiring. That would be my greatest influence." Alan Basner began umpiring 25 years ago and continues to call games as high as the college level. He's umpired enough games that he doesn't even watch the players when he sits in the stands, especially when his son is on the field. "As an umpire you stop watching the players," Alan Basner said. "You just watch the umpires. It is such an integral part of the game. The umpires are such a part of keeping it a gentlemen's game. And I love watching (Toby)." As a father, mentor and booking agent for a time, Alan Basner was on the field as his son grew from a 12-year-old with knowledge and "good judgment" into a high school and college umpire. And now Alan can only watch as Toby makes a career out of a pre-teen's first job. "I did his first high school game with him," Alan Basner remembers. "Quite a few college games with him, too. I love every minute of it. "I don't get to get out there with him any more. They don't let me." Young Toby Basner also played a little baseball. The lefty dabbled in pitching when he wasn't in center field. At Brookwood he was "very active," playing football, basketball and baseball. He briefly hoped to pursue baseball beyond high school. "I didn't really have everything in order in my life," he said of his high school years. "I have definitely straightened up a lot since then. I have always known I wanted to be involved in baseball." Just like the players Toby Basner quickly points out the differences (no signing bonuses, home parks or rookie call-ups), but an umpire's path to the big leagues closely mirrors the players they monitor. The good ones are plucked out of school and sent to rookie leagues. From there they make the climb through the minor leagues. There are short season leagues, Class A, AA then AAA. In AAA, a select few get a "number." It's like a player making the 40-man roster. If a big-league ump can't call a game, one of the minor-league guys gets a call-up for a spot start. And then it's on to the show. Every step, guys are weeded out. Every level sees its own attrition. Basner enrolled in the six-week Harry Wendelstedt School for Umpires in Ormond Beach, Fla., when he was 19. He made the cut and attended the evaluation course hosted by the Professional Baseball Umpire Corp. But he only made the reserve list after the first round of jobs were dealt. People always fall out and the Gulf Coast League quickly plucked Basner from the reserves. Six years later, he was in Class AAA. The next step is getting a number. They are assigned each year during spring training, just like roster spots. After a year in the Class AAA Pacific Coast League, Basner moved over to the International League. He attempts an ambivalent tone when discussing his move to the East Coast centered league, but he recognizes opportunities when he sees them. "I am kind of indifferent to the IL decision," the 25-year-old said. "There are more major league teams on the East Coast than the West Coast. Hopefully in a year or two down the road I can start working up and down in the big leagues." Just like the players, the only goal is the big leagues. It's where the best players, and umpires, work. Knowledge vs. perception There is a reason umpires use the word "work" to describe their craft. For the guys with bats and gloves, baseball is a job they play. Umpiring is work beginning long before anyone shouts "play ball." Learning to understand the intricate baseball rulebook is a job never finished. Rules change. In 100-plus nine-inning games each season, unimaginable situations arise. The rulebook has notes and subsections and comments. "I am in the rulebook almost every day during the season," Basner said. "Even if there are plays that don't develop, I am in the field thinking, 'If this would happen, what's the ruling on it?' I always try to keep it as fresh as I can. In umpire school you go through the whole rulebook and I thought I knew the whole rulebook and I didn't." Basner considers ruling and situations during his free time before games and he reviews other supplemental manuals as well. Not knowing a rule is an embarrassment he won't suffer. "That is one thing we should be 100 percent on," he said of the rulebook. "We can miss a call, but if you miss a rule, that is something you can definitely prevent." Bad calls happen. "I am far from perfect and I am far from perfect on a baseball field," Basner said. Watch enough baseball and a missed call pops up. With slow motion and high definition, catching an umpire's error made with one look, at full speed, is easy. For umpires, calls are as much a matter of perception and an appearance of conviction as they are right and wrong. "I am going to be confident with my call all of the time," Basner said. "I am always going to act like I am confident. A manager with a lot of experience will come out there and if he knows you are not 100 percent on the call he is going to take that and run with it. If I miss a call, I will know I missed it. I am not going to tell a manager I missed it." Maturity There is a reason we attach words like respected, experienced and grizzled to major league umpires. They fit. Umpires in the big leagues worked their way there. It's their career and they are at the top of the profession. The best, as Basner has done, rise quickly. But at each level they learn by doing. Getting to the big leagues for umpires mirrors the path laid for players, but there are no shortcuts. No umpire breaks spring training in the big leagues in his first or second year. No No. 1 draft picks immediately make their mark in the show. "There is only so much they can really teach us and we have to go out there and get thrown in the fire," Basner said. "They do drills in umpire school, but that's about it. They teach us small things." There is no class for what a 21-year-old Basner saw in the Dominican Republic. He had just finished his first season in A-ball and was a surprise selection to work in the winter leagues. It was a big career opportunity, calling games with older crews and dealing with major league players. He was learning Spanish on the fly and living in a foreign country for the first time. One game, with a crowd of about 25,000, Basner remembers, the benches cleared. "People were throwing rocks and pipes and bottles," Basner said. "It was a riot, an absolute riot. It was completely insane the way it blew up like that." Fights were popping up in different parts of the field, according to Basner, and he just did his best to stay safe. "I am not going to get in between two 6-4 guys going at it," he said. "You guys can settle your problems. I was just bouncing around. My mouth must have been dragging on the field." Living those moments makes umpires immune to surprise. Every game teaches them how to act when tempers rise. Every discussion at the plate or disagreement in the field gives the umpires practice in ending confrontations and earning managers' and players' respect. Respect is all Basner wants. "If they don't want to treat me with respect then I won't deal with them that way," he said. "You are going to get your confrontations and you are going to deal with them. If (anyone) is going to sit there and yell at you, I am not going to argue. I'll just throw you out of the game."
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Research Presentations, and Publications
Current News
The Exponent, Purdue University's student-run newspaper conducted an interview with Anthropology faculty Amanda Veile and Erik Otárola-Castillo. The Exponent was interested in our faculty's opinion on the trendy "Paleo" diet. Click on the following link to read the article "Paleo or tasty treat: Does it matter"
Anthropology graduate student, Matthew Pike recently traveled to Michigan State to take part in a National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities funded Institute on Digital Archaeology Method and Practice. Matthew was fortunate to be one of 20 selected out of almost 200 applicants from across the archaeological spectrum (academic, CRM, graduate students, tenured faculty, museum professionals, etc.)
The goal of the institute is to expose interested archaeological scholars to advances in digital methods beyond GIS and database management, including Digital Project Development and Management; 3D & Augmented Reality; Digital Public Outreach and Engagement; Data, Linked Data, and Digital Libraries; Digital Publication and Scholarly Communication; and Geospatial and Digital Cultural Mapping.
The Institute is a year-long experience, with another week-long intensive workshop in August 2016. During his recent visit he was exposed to many new tools, methods, and ways of thinking about digital methods in archaeology from the previously mentioned topics. Over the next year, he (and the rest of the participants) will be developing independent digital archaeology projects with support from the Institute faculty. Matthew's project (tentatively titled the "Northern Copper Technology Database") will be a public repository of much of the archaeological copper database that Dr. Cooper, Matthew,and Garett Hunt have been constructing. The goal for the project will be to function as an open, central repository for knowledge and data about northern copper metallurgy for researchers.
In addition to the projects scholarly audience, the website will also be designed with input from partnerships in northern indigenous descendant communities so that the information they present will be useful and interesting to these communities as well. Ideally this will function as a form of digital repatriation by providing digital access to material heritage for many extremely rural communities.
We are pleased to welcome Erik Otárola-Castillo to our department. Erick has recently co-authored and published an article "When mothers need others: Why does it take a village to raise a child." It has almost become cliché to say 'it takes a village to raise a child.' Why do human mothers, unlike most among mammals, rely on help to raise children? To answer this question, a new study co-authored by Karen Kramer and Erik Otárola-Castillo published in the Journal of Human Evolution, and highlighted by the Harvard Gazette and other popular-media news sources, uses mathematical and numerical modeling to explore mother-offspring characteristics throughout the human evolutionary trajectory. The work shows that during many of the early changes in our evolutionary past, a mother and her children can cooperate as a group to provide sufficient support each other—later in time, however, as more modern human characteristics developed (e.g., earlier weaning, shorter birth intervals, longer juvenile dependence) mothers began to need cooperation from other adults and the community at large."
The Anthropology Department is hosting a visiting undergraduate research student this summer and in the fall term. Karen Lorena Romero Leal, who is joining us as part of Purdue's UREP-C program, comes to us from Colombia with an interest in Amazonian indigenous peoples, testimonial literature, and oral histories. Karen will be working with Dr. Laura Zanotti and Dr. Sherri Briller.
An illustrated profile of Prof. Laura Zanotti's environmental anthropology research and field school in the Amazon rainforest is featured in the latest issue of CLA's THiNK Magazine.
Congratulations to Professors Laura Zanotti and Kory Cooper who have been promoted to Associate Professor!
Ellen Gruenbaum presented a lecture on her research to about 40 UN staff at the United Nations Development Program in Khartoum, Sudan, on Feb. 25th. Her topic was "Generation of Change: FGM/C and Abandonment Efforts in Sudan."
Ellen Gruenbaum gave a series of lectures to Public Health Master's students at the Ahfad University for Women in Omdurman, Sudan, in February, during her sabbatical affiliation there.
Dr. Bryce Carlson was recently interviewed about his upcoming participation in the Race Across the USA. Dr. Carlson will be participating as well as serve as the research director for the 140 day, 3080 mile event. You can read the interview here.
Professor Ian Lindsay's work with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or 'drones') at atchaeological sites in Armenia is featured in an upcoming episode of 'Boiler Bytes' on the Big Ten Network.
Congratulations to Ian Lindsay for receiving an Enhancing Research in the Humanities and the Arts Grant from the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships for his research project entitled, "Investigating Territorial Commitments and Long-Term Political Process within Bronze and Iron Age Fortified Landscapes in Armenia."
Congratulations to Sarah Caldwell for receiving a Global Synergy Grant for Students from the Office of the President for her research project entitled, "In the Wake of War: Population Health in Ottoman-Occupied Croatia, 14th-17th Centuries." Congratulations to Ingrid Ramon Parra who also received this award for her research project entitled "Menire Making Movies: A Participatory Video Project with Kayapó Women in the Brazilian Amazon."
Dr. Audrey Ricke was the invited speaker for Lafayette's Daybreak Rotary Club on Thursday, September 11th. Her presentation was entitled "Supporting the Community: German Identity and Traditions in Brazil."
On September 4th, Dr. Bryce Carlson spoke with the Greater Lafayette Daybreak Rotary Club about his upcoming Race Across USA and research project on biocultural adaptation to very long distance running.
Dr. Bryce Carlson was recently featured in a Purdue Exponent story questioning the validity and health promoting claims of the Paleo Diet. Among other criticisms, Carlson notes that (1) there is no single human diet consistent with our collective Paleolithic ancestry, (2) our genes are not stuck in the Paleolithic, and have in fact evolved in response to agriculture, and (3) excluding products of agriculture from the diet is arbitrary and silly, considering most Paleo approved foods are themselves highly altered products of agriculture (e.g. fruits, vegetables, lean meat). Click here to read this article.
The research of professors Kory Cooper and Michele Buzon are featured in the Sept/Oct issue of Purdue Alumnus Magazine. Click on the Purdue Alumnus magazine image to read more.
Dr. Ian Lindsay is using emerging drone and mobile-GIS technologies in support of his archaeological research on Bronze Age societies in Armenia. Read more about his latest fieldwork in this article from Purdue News
Dr. Ellen Gruenbaum is spending part of her sabbatical on a fellowship for a 4-week Writing Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center at the Villa Serbelloni, located in Bellagio on Lake Como. She'll be working on a project entitled, "Generation of Change: New leaders and initiatives on female genital modifications in Africa and beyond."
Assistant Professors Kory Cooper and Laura Zanotti are part of an 8 member team of interdisciplinary scholars recently awarded a $57,000 Mellon Grand Challenge Exploratory Award to investigate e-waste. One result of rapid innovation in the electronics industry is that electronic devices now often have very short use-lives. Electronic devices are consumed and discarded in increasing numbers and most of these devices contain metals or plastics that are harmful to human health. This project will investigate public understanding of this phenomenon and engage the local community in finding solutions.
The Department of Anthropology would like to welcome two new faculty and 2 Visiting Assistant Professors.
Dr. Sherylyn Briller has been appointed Associate Professor of sociocultural anthropology/applied and practicing. She holds degrees from Carleton College (BA), and Case Western Reserve University (MA and PhD). She most recently has been teaching Anthropology at Wayne State University (Detroit) where she also served in the Institute of Gerontology and the Interdisciplinary Center to Advance Palliative Care Excellence. This fall she will be teaching our course Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives (Anth 340). She will be taking a lead role in the development of our Master's degree track in Applied and Practicing Anthropology.
Dr. LaShandra Sullivan will be joining us as assistant professor of sociocultural anthropology a year from now, in fall 2015. She studied Philosophy at Howard (BA), International Relations at Yale (MA), and Anthropology at the University of Chicago (MA, PhD). Her doctoral research was on labor, agribusiness, and land protest camps in Brazil, and she previously did research and also worked as an economic attaché for the State Department in West Africa. She will expand our department's curriculum on Latin America, rural-urban anthropology, development, diversity and globalization.
Audrey Ricke-Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Dr. Ricke is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on transnational German identity in Brazil and the United States. She has done research on German folk dances, festivals, and gardens in southern Brazil and the role that the aesthetics at these tourism activities play in navigating race, class, and transnational identity.
Elizabeth Rowe—Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Dr. Rowe is a biological anthropologist whose research focuses on gene-environment interactions in the menstrual cycle and other aspects of women's reproductive physiology. She is also interested in the consequences of persistent social inequalities on women's reproductive biology.
Dr. Rowe recently gave a talk about The Evolution of Menstruation (and why you should care) at Science on Tap at Lafayette Brewing Company. Science on Tap is a forum for scientists to give public talks about their research during happy hour. In her talk, Dr. Rowe discussed the fact that there are several species of mammals that menstruate besides humans, but all species that menstruate share some features of the placenta. However, humans have unusually copious menstrual bleeding compared to other species, which may be a consequence of changes to the human placenta that are adaptations to bipedalism. These changes in turn likely explain why only humans have preeclampsia, a potentially fatal disease that occurs during pregnancy. More about Dr. Rowe's talk can be found here.
Congratulations to Verity Whalen, who has been selected as one of the two recipients of the 2014 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Dissertation Award. Verity Whalen recently completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Purdue, under the supervision of Professor Kevin Vaughn.
In addition, Beth Gravalos was notified that she is the winner of the 2014 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Master's Thesis Award!
Both will receive plaques and monetary awards in recognition of their achievements.
Honors and Awards
O. Michael Watson Award for Outstanding Graduating Senior
Congratulations to the following students who received the Department of Anthropology's top honors for academic achievement and service, the O. Michael Watson Award for Outstanding Graduating Senior. The Award is named in honor of our legendary professor, Dr. O. Michael Watson (1936-2012), whose dynamic undergraduate courses excited decades of anthropology students. Each year, the student selected goes on to be nominated for consideration for the college of Liberal Arts Outstanding Student Award.
2015 Michael Lockman
Walter Hirsch Award
Walter Hirsch was a Purdue faculty member in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology from 1947 until his retirement in 1989, who specialized in social movements and the sociology of science. His family and friends established this award in his memory in recognition of his long time interest in and support of graduate students. Each year, the award provides approximately $1,000 to help with the costs of dissertation research for one doctoral candidate in Anthropology and one in Sociology.
2015 Ingrid Ramon Parra
Congratulations to our recent PhD graduate, Dr. Ryan Plis, for receiving the College of Liberal Arts' Distinguished Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Families in Transition: Gender Non-Conformists and their Kin Networks in the Mid-Southern U.S." This is the highest award given to dissertations in the College!
Congratulations to the winners of the 2015-16 PRF Research Grants:
Ingrid Ramon Parra and Laura Zanotti have received a 2015-16 Purdue Research Foundation Research Grant for "Menire
making Movies: A Participatory Video Project with Kayapo Women in the Brazilian Amazon".
Matthew Pike and Kory Cooper have received a 2015-16 Purdue Research Foundation Grant for "Prehistoric Copper Technology in the Arctic and Subarctic: A Geospatial Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Innovation".
Congratulations to Elizabeth Hall who has just been notified that she has received a 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship to support her doctoral studies. Liz is currently completing her MS in our program which is serving as a pilot for her developing PhD research on Zoonotic Pathogens: Disease Transmission among Apes and Humans in Mosaic Habitats in West and Central Africa.
Prof. Richard Blanton, Lane Farger (Purdue Research Affiliate), and Verenice Heredia Espinoza have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to support their project "The Relationship Between Household Organization And Governance." The aim of their research is to uncover changes in household formation and economies in a newly-forming republican system of governance in the Postclassic Period of Tlaxcala, a site in the Central Highlands of Mexico.
Dr. Abdul Khabeer is co-PI on the "Muslims in the Midwest: An Oral History Project" that was recently awarded a grant as part of the Global Midwest initiative by the Humanities Without Walls consortium. The project will establish and build a digital archive that documents the varied experiences of American Muslims in the Midwest through testimonies across generational, gender, geographical, socio-economic, and ethnic differences. Dr. Abdul Khabeer's contribution will focus on African American Muslims in the Midwest. The Senior Project Advisor is Mohammed Khalil (Michigan State and other co-PI's are Junaid Rana (Illinois), Nadine Naber (Illinois-Chicago)and Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana).
Congratulations to Dr. Michele Buzon who was appointed by the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts in June 2014 to a five-year term (2014-2019) as a University Faculty Scholar. This honor provides additional annual research support.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Michele Buzon on her 2014 award from the National Science Foundation for her project entitled, "Collaborative Research: Impact and Accommodation Through Cultural Contact." She will use the funds ($135,272) to support her bioarchaeological research investigating the impact of Egypt's New Kingdom Empire (c. 1500-1050 BC) on the Kerma culture in Nubia through an examination of identity and health before and after the conquest and colonization of the area (with UCSB collaborator Stuart Tyson Smith). This research is also being supported by the Purdue Office of the Vice President for Research Bridge Funding Program ($48,045).
Dr. Ian Lindsay won the Departmental Excellence in Teaching Award for 2014. He was honored for his work in utilizing student-centered hands-on teaching and technology. He teaches archaeology, technology and culture, and the large lecture Intro to General Anthropology course.
In November 2013, Dr. Ian Lindsay was awarded two grants from Purdue's Office of the Vice President for Research in support of his archaeological work in Armenia:
- Transdisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Research Grant ($8778): "Using Purdue's MSE Electron Microscopy Facility to Study Pottery Technology and Social Organization among Bronze Age Fortress Settlements in Armenia."
- Non-laboratory Research Infrastructure and Equipment Program Grant, Tier 2 ($17,861): "Funding Request for Archaeological Survey and Remote Sensing Equipment."
Franco Lai won the 2013 Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion Graduate Student Award for Research Excellence! Her award-winning paper is titled "Sexualities in Transnational Migrant Circuits: Female same-sex relations among female domestic migrant workers in Hong Kong." For further information about the award click here.
Dr. Cooper was awarded a $512,950 grant from the National Science Foundation's Arctic Social Sciences Program for a 3-year program of research titled "Prehistoric Native Copper Technology in Northwest North America: Innovation, Diffusion, and Heritage."
Professor Evelyn Blackwood was awarded a Title IX service award as a pioneer, advocate, and mentor in the area of gender equity in November 2012. Congratulations Dr. Blackwood! Click here for Purdue Today's feature of Dr. Blackwood's accomplishments.
Graduate Student Diana Steele has won the 2012 Central States Anthropological Society student paper competition (graduate division) for her paper, "Punarunas and Llamativos: Place-Based Identities of Amazonian Migrant Tour Guides in Cusco, Peru." The award comes with a $300 cash prize. Congratulations to Diana!
At the Society for Applied Anthropology meetings in Seattle in 2011, grad student Elizabeth Wirtz's poster was selected as the second place winner in a large field of presenters.
Research, Presentations, and Publications
Katelyn Reavis presented her research with Dr. Michele Buzon at the American Association of Physical Anthropology in Calgary, Alberta Canada, April 2014.
Melissa Remis and Carolyn Jost Robinson published an article in 2014 on ethnoprimatology and multispecies approaches, with coauthors Nick Malone, Alison Wade, Agustin Fuentes, and Erin Riley. The article is titled, "Ethnoprimatology: Critical interdisciplinary and multi species approaches in anthropology." Critique of Anthropology 341(1):8-29.
Three undergraduate students showcased their anthropology research at the annual Honors Colloquium on March 5, 2014 (PMU Room 118, 12-2 p.m.). They are:
Michael Lockman (Buzon, ANTH 336) "Mesoamerican Cultural Accommodation of Deformity"
Katelyn Reavis (Buzon, ANTH 498) "Investigating Senescence in Ancient Nubia"
Tyler Pitts (Nolan, ANTH 205) "Conformity and Individuality: Female Circumcision and Genital Piercing"
Congratulations to Diana Steele who received a Global Synergy Research Grant for Students from the Office of the Vice President for Research in spring 2014. The grant funds her dissertation work on "Geographies of Difference: Examining Race and Place through Amazonian Migrants Livelihoods in Peru."
Dr. Bryce Carlson has authored a paper on diurnal variation in nutrient consumption appearing in this month's issue of the American Journal of Primatology. With co-authors Dr. Jessica Rothman and Dr. John Mitani, Dr. Carlson showed that wild chimpanzees at Kibale National Park, Uganda preferentially consumed two common dietary resources late in the day when their nutritional quality was highest. This study suggests chimpanzees may be capable of tracking changes in nutritional composition on the order of hours, not just weeks or months. For more information please click here.
A publication based on MS research by recent PhD recipient Sarah Schrader is now available online in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, entitled "Activity patterns in New Kingdom Nubia: An examination of entheseal remodeling and osteoarthritis at Tombos."
Dr. Evelyn Blackwood and Dr. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer presented papers at the Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion's Spring Symposium on March 29, 2012. The presentations focused on cultural marginalization (Abdul Khabeer) and Trans Embodiment (Blackwood).
Anthropology graduate student Elizabeth Wirtz (second from left) presented a paper in a Purdue collaborative conference on "The State and Social Movements: Violence, Health, and Food Security" in India in March 2013 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Wirtz is standing next to conference organizer Dr. Mangala Subramaniam (center) of the Department of Sociology at Purdue.
In the Media
Professor Melissa Remis's research was featured in Purdue News on May 20, 2014. The research studied the effects of integrated conservation and development in the Dzanga-Sangha Dense Forest Reserve, including the first look at the impact on people's health. Click here to read the article.
Dr. Evelyn Blackwood was interviewed by The Daily Beast about her research among the Minangkabau in West Sumatra, Indonesia. You can find the full article here.
Purdue anthropologist Bryce Carlson was selected for the 2015 Race Across USA. Along with running this 3,000-mile journey, he will be in charge of research during their outreach stops along the way. Read details here.
Assistant Professor Kory Cooper's collaborative archaeological research and teaching with the School of Materials Engineering was highlighted in the April 8th, 2014 installment of "Purdue Profiles." In this piece Cooper talks about the course "Archaeology and Materials Science", which he co-teaches with MSE faculty. Click here for a link to this article.
Associate Professor Kevin Vaughn traveled to Japan in February 2014 to participate in two international symposia in Osaka and Yamagata. His presentation on his research in Peru was featured in the newspapers there.
Dr. Evelyn Blackwood was interviewed on the topic of "Global Genders" on Public Radio International's weekly program "To the Best of Our Knowledge," which aired on Aug. 30, 2013. You can listen to the program here.
Evelyn Blackwood was interviewed on BBC Radio's Today Programme concerning her research on the matrilineal Minangkabau in Indonesia. The interview focused on the lives of men in a matrilineal society, and was part of a BBC mini series examining changing Western conceptions of masculinity.
Dr. Michele Buzon spoke with the National Geographic Radio Weekend Show about the Nubian Pharaohs and her research in the Nile Valley. You can listen to it here.
Department Activities
Annual Anthropology Association Annual Meeting Grad Fair On November 23, 2013, our department participated at the Grad Fair at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Over 50 people stopped by our table to ask about our program, and had a chance to chat about the many different aspects of graduate school. Many thanks to everyone who helped, Anjali Bhardwaj, Ryan Plis, Ellen Gruenbaum, and Talin Lindsay!
Other Graduate Student Awards, Fellowships, and Activities
In summer 2012, high school student, Brooke Benner, a senior at Catholic Central High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan, worked with associate professor Michele Buzon and MS student, Andrew Baker for two weeks on the analysis of muscle markers on bone using a 3-D scanner. This project was part of the Research Seminar Program at Catholic Central where students choose to learn how to conduct scientific research with a research mentor in their area of interest.
Doctoral student Ryan Plis and Dr. Evelyn Blackwood received the Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion 2012 award for the best paper in the category of Faculty research. The paper is entitled, "Trans Technologies and Identities in the United States." It is published in Technologies of Sexuality and Sexual Health, Lenore Manderson, editor, Routledge, 2012.
The Spring issue of THiNK magazine features the work of several anthropology faculty members and students. We invite you to check out the news here.
Graduate student Jonas Ecke received the Human Rights Defender Award from the Society of Applied Anthropology (SfAA) for his efforts of combining his research on West African refugees with activism work.
Doctoral student Kyle Jones is the 2012 recipient of the Committee for the Education of Teaching Assistants Award (CETA).
Doctoral student Elizabeth Wirtz was recently awarded a Purdue Research Foundation Grant for her dissertation work "Measuring the Impact of Physical and Structural Violence on Somali Refugee Women's Perceptions of Fertility and Motherhood in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya"
Ian Lindsay presented a talk at the 2011 Chicago Humanities Festival entitled "Can you Dig It?: Technology in the Archaeological Record."
Latino Learning Center
Dr. Blackwood's "Community Engagement" course (Anth 392, F '11), which offered students hands-on engagement with Latino communities in Indiana, was featured in the Spring 2011 CLA Think magazine.
PhD recipient Sarah Schrader was featured in an article about her Sudan fieldwork in the Purdue Exponent.
The American Anthropological Association's Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA, formerly the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, SOLGA) awarded Evelyn Blackwood the 2011 Ruth Benedict Book Prize in the category "Outstanding Monograph" for her book Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010). For more information please see the full press release here.
Brazilian Field School Dr. Laura Zanotti recently returned from Brazilian Amazon, where she co-taught a study abroad course on indigenous peoples and conservation. Purdue anthropology major Alexandra Furman (pictured here) was among the select number of students that joined the course this year.
Kyle Jones was selected as the 2011 recipient of the College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Master's Thesis Award. His thesis on hip-hop artists in Peru is titled, "Hip Hop Huancayo: Youth Identities, Performative Sites, and the Politics of Legitimation". Kyle is supervised by Dr. Brian Kelly.
Before her graduation, Sarah Schrader (PhD 2012) (with advisor Dr. Michele Buzon), was a recipient of the National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant entitled, "Bioarchaeological Analysis of Diet and Activity Patterns in the Nile Valley."
The recipient of the Ethnographic Essay Award in 2011 was Jaime Kruis, who wrote about her participant observation of a shabbat service on campus.
At the Graduate School's annual event honoring graduate student teaching award winners on April 26, 2011, Ryan Plis was honored as the Anthropology Department winner, with Dr. Evelyn Blackwood in attendance.
Dr. Laura Zanotti was awarded a Kinley Trust grant to carry out ethnographic research in Barrow, Alaska, an Inupiat whaling community. Dr. Zanotti works with women in the community to better understand well-being and natural resource management.
Dr. Laura Zanotti presented a talk entitled, "Amazonian Landscapes" as part of Eastern Illinois University's Redden lecture series. Zanotti was hosted by Dr. Donald Holly.
Community Outreach
Students and faculty of the department frequently reach out to local schools and community groups to present anthropological ideas and research findings. Here are just a few samples:
On July 31, 2014, Dr. Elizabeth Rowe presents her talk on "The Evolution of Menstruation" to the "Science on Tap" series at the Lafayette Brewing Company, on Main St. in Lafayette. A previous speaker in the series was Dr. Sharon Williams (in 2011) whose topic was on aging in cross-national perspective, which focused on her research on the significant differences in how humans age across the globe, work she pursued with the World Health Organization.
Anthropology Students at Purdue Spring Fest 2011.
Left to right - Patty Glen, Andrea Ochab, Rachel Duttlinger, Anjali Bhardwaj, and Sirisha Kandukuri
Alumni at Work
Ashley Ruse (BA 2011) accepted an RN position at Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation in Bethel, Alaska, in the YK Delta. Post graduation, Ashley continued to pursue her bachelors in nursing, which she completed in August 2013. YKHC serves over 50 villages populated predominately by the Yup'ik Eskimo.
Katie Smith (PhD 2012) accepted a position as postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Houston. Katie is working in the lab of Dr. Ezemenari Obasi, where she studies stress and addiction in African American populations. The study will be examining the role of addiction as a coping mechanism for stress in a population that deals with multiple daily chronic stressors, including health disparities and discrimination.
Jennifer Studebaker (MS 2012) worked as Office Coordinator at the Society for Ethnomusicology at Indiana University following graduation. She reported that she really likes the position and is learning a lot about non-profit organization management.
Evelyn Latour (MS 2012) was hired as a Market Research Strategist for an international firm, CarbonSix, doing client interfacing, field research study management, qualitative data analysis and report writing. Her coworkers include a nice mixture of academic and business backgrounds—MAs, a couple of PhDs, and some MBAs—which is just the sort of interdisciplinary work environment she hoped for.
Remembering Those That Went Before
O. Michael Watson (1936-2012)
Dr. Watson was born in 1936 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Colorado. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, he studied anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and earned a BA and Ph.D. In 1967 joined the Purdue University faculty as one of the founders of the Anthropology Department. Professor Watson's early research focused on proxemic analysis, which he published in Proxemic Behavior: A Cross-Cultural Study (Mouton, 1970). He subsequently turned to visual anthropology, which led to a number of publications and graduate seminars, as well as his production of the classic film Spirit of Ethnography. Professor Watson was one of the founders of anthropology at Purdue, and he devoted his career to the growth of the discipline and to the department. A renowned teacher and beloved professor, he won numerous teaching awards during his 40 years at Purdue. Generations of students took his love of anthropology and enthusiasm for human cultural diversity along with them as they pursued their many directions. Known for his energy and amazing ability to find humor everywhere, he is remembered for the joy and laughter he brought to so many lives. When Professor Watson retired in 2007, the Department of Anthropology honored him by naming our annual student award after him.
Jay O'Brien (1947-2013)
Jay O'Brien was born in New Jersey, in 1947 and grew up in California. He came of age influenced by the music, activism, natural beauty, and the social concerns of 1960s California. After being an exchange student in Sweden when he was 17 and doing a study abroad in Germany, he was inspired to become an anthropologist. He studied anthropology at Stanford University and the University of Connecticut (Ph.D. 1980).
Professor O'Brien studied the long-term effects of colonial regimes in Africa, and wrote his master's thesis on Portuguese empire in Africa, 1415-1961. Subsequently he spent 5 years in Sudan, researching agricultural labor and development, using political economy and ethnography to understand family dynamics, ethnic identification shifts, and development dilemmas in Sudan. Among his publications were three books—on political economy and development in Sudan, and on the intersection of history and anthropology.
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Hi, I recently purchased a secondhand pair of pierced earrings. I have not worn them yet and, to be on the safe side, I have boiled them in water and cleaned them with antiseptic. Is this sufficient to ensure minimum risk of HIV or Hep C and does such a risk exist when wearing secondhand earrings. Many Thanks J
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I would not consider this a risk. Earrings pass through well-healed (epithelialized) holes in the skin that do not pose a risk.
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The Valley News published an editorial on Saturday in praise of a proposed Good Samaritan law that is being debated in the NH legislature:
The proposal in New Hampshire is simple and straightforward: "Any person who places a call through the enhanced 911 system to report a suspected drug or alcohol related emergency shall be immune from any civil or criminal liability for good faith conduct arising from or pertaining to the placing of the call." That protection is extended to the person experiencing the emergency.
Enactment of this law — like ones already in place in ten other states — would deprive the Town of Hanover police of its main venue for arresting Dartmouth students (currently a full arrest in the case of a second offence, or running them into an expensive Town diversion program for their first infraction) for abuse of the underage drinking laws, a regular event that I reported in The D on February 16, 2007:
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Once in the hands of the Hanover Police, a student confronts a choice between a court hearing that usually leads to a fine of between $250 and $300, an Internet-retrievable court record and a possible 30-day loss of driving privileges when the court automatically reports excessive consumption to the DMV or participation in the town's day-long "diversion" program at a cost to the student of $400.
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Just FYI, I talked to Arcteryx today and the Squamish is getting a new fabric for 2014. The old Squamish used a 20-denier nylon, the 2014 version will use a 30-denier nylon, with a weight increase of what looks like .3oz in a medium.Also, it looks like there's a slightly more substantial brim in the hood, with a drawstring around the back (was that already there? No?). I will let you guys know how it looks/feels when I get it tomorrow.Cheers,Max
Edited by mdilthey on 03/06/2014 12:54:09 MST.
Max,the fit should also be a bit different. So please check also if could roll-up the sleeves over your elbows (of course, everybody is built different).
I will. I have athletic arms, but I'm no weightlifter. The Arcteryx rep also mentioned it being trimmer, so I'll go ahead and post fit pictures.
I was able to see the new version in person the other day. Not good, the old luminara is so much better. It has a better texture and more stretch. The new fabric is a downgrade. This is all my opinion.
but hows the breathability ...of course im being lazy ... i should just walk into our local stores and check one out ... its not like i dont pass by at least 3 dead bird selling shops and the factory everytime i go climbing;)
speaking of lazy...Didn't someone discuss the breathabiliy on the older Squarmish somewhere on this list? I thought I read that it was considered by some to be "too breathable"? I just always stumble into threads on how great the old Houdini was.What would "too breathable" really mean?
Well, the first 30D Gossamera fabric was measured at more then 100 CFM. Now, there is some discussion whether there was a coating added afterwards that did drop the CFM to 7 (figure according to Arc'teryx claims). That Gossamera is used again.
Richard measured a 2007 Squamish at 100.59 CFM.I strongly suggest not making any assumptions about newer Squamish's based on that 2007 measurement. Unless you are buying a 2007 Squamish, it's best to forget that number.Here are some of Richard's measurements, compiled by another BPL'er: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvISkg3y0higdG80UzBRVUVaZmlWV1JYeWlVVHV3dEE&usp=sharing#gid=0
Edited by clear_blue_skies on 03/06/2014 14:42:36 MST.
Downgrade why? Breathability? Weight?
The old 20d luminara was stretchy, lighter, more dynamic and better. The new 30d fabric feels cheap and generic. The old fabric was loved by so many people on this jacket and others like the atom lt. The old fabric was one of the key features that made people like it much, it was a unique fabric i have not seen on other equipment. This is a huge downgrade, in my opinion, I feel like I'd be hard pressed to find out that someone likes the new gossamera better.
Michael, Thank you. I'll be especially critical on the fabric when I receive it and post my thoughts. I owned the old squamish for a while, so I'll know the difference. I also put in a ticket to Arcteryx asking about why they changed it (will likely get a sales pitch).
What is old as Luminara was only introduced from 2010 and before they used Gossamera ? The change back is, I thought, because they concluded they needed a stronger fabric.That Gossamera is supposed to be a downgrade while Arc'teryx says they're pratically the same, only Luminare is 20D and Gossamera is 30D.
Consumer > UltralighterIf it really is more durable, well, that's not the WORST trade-off in the world for .3oz. They could have done worse. I'll let you know my thoughts.
It could be more durable, but the old fabric was something special. Dirt would literally fall off of it, my atom lt with luminara looks brand new and i have never washed it over 1.5 years.
Yep, bigtime change to the fabric. I'll post pics tomorrow, but it's the same fabric as my 2012 Atom SV. The old Squamish had a gossamer-feeling fabric with no visinle textures. This new 30D fabric feels much rougher, has a ripstop grid pattern, is more see-through, and is noisier than the old fabric.Worth the "durability" increase? Likely not. However, the fit is much better. I think it's just slightly longer in the torso, the sleeves are dead on, and I wish every hood on every jacket I own was this well-fitting. I'm keeping it.I know it won't repel dirt: my Atom SV doesn't.
Matt asked, "What would "too breathable" really mean?"You lose heat to air circulation. Nisely said that 35CFM about the limit for moisture transfer. I recently got one of the OR Ferrosi shirts and it's not as warm as my old Houdini and noticeably breezier. There's been a lot of chatter about this lately and I think it is a good study for UL gear in general. The game is weight AND performance. You can get super light windshirts that will block the wind, but if they lack breathability the versatility drops; likewise if they are too porous and don't block cold wind.To answer your question, you'll know if a windshirt is too breathable when you get a blast of cold air :)
Are you using this as a replacement to a rain shell? It does seem that it is water repellent. The light weight is attractive, but you loose the full function of a rain shell if this is what you are packing. Traveling light is all about compromises, and multi use, and this seems to fit in line with that well. I have been using a Montane featherlite for a while. Is this fabric similar to that? It would be nice to have a hood at times. However, I am not sure I would substitute this for a rain shell if the weather looks dodgy.
Hi Max,Well it's been a month. Thoughts on the new fabric? Does the hood still accomodate a helmet?
I bought the Squamish from Max and have since used it for some day hikes thus far. Since I have adequate Houdini (2012, 2013 and 2014) experience I can say hands down the Squamish is now my favorite wind shell. It breathes like the old Houdini and is super, super comfortable to wear. I do agree, the fabric isn't as high tech feeling as the older Squamish models I've seen but it is supposed to be more durable and it performs great. It doesn't seem to me like there is any polyurethane coating on it either, which is one of the primary things that held me back on the earlier Squamish models.I haven't used it for climbing yet since it's still been cold enough I've worn my puffies, but I have no doubt that the lower profile helmets will fit. It fits big enough on my head that I need to cinch it down a bit. I love the hood, especially with the stiff brim. To me this could be the wind shell that takes the cake. Hard faced for abrasion and snag resistance, great water resistance, and breath ability so good you don't notice it's there when you're working hard, but plenty wind protection when the weather gets breezy or gusty.
"It breathes like the old Houdini and is super, super comfortable to wear. ... It doesn't seem to me like there is any polyurethane coating on it either, which is one of the primary things that held me back on the earlier Squamish models."Funny as in the Arc'teryx Tech Manual Gossamera has a light PU-coating and has that already for years.
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