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New University Partnership For Disaster Risk Management In Ethiopia
Washington, DC (July 27, 2007) - Higher Education for Development (HED), in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID/Ethiopia), announces a new award for a university partnership in Ethiopia. The University of Arizona (UA), Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) receives a $200,000 award to create a regional center of excellence on disaster risk management and sustainable development in collaboration with Bahir Dar University (BDU). Read more.
Traditional Use at SRM Meeting - February 2007
Rebecca S. Toupal, Assistant Research Scientist with BARA, and Richard Arnold, representative of the Consolidated Group of Tribes and Oganizations, presented a poster about Traditional Piņon Pine Management (PowerPoint) at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management in Reno, NV. Visitors to the poster included university professors and students from the U.S. and Mexico, federal and state agency range managers, Native Americans, ranchers, and high school range students. Everyone was intrigued by the innovative approach to dealing with fuel loads and invasive plant species, and the potential benefits from traditional practices to rangelands and the cultures that depend upon them.
Development Seminar Series - February 2007
The BARA Development Seminar Series is pleased to welcome Dr. Paul Francis to present "Swimming Upstream: Anthropology and Social Development at the World Bank"
48 UofA presentations at 2007 SFAA - January 2007
View the schedule of UofA presentations at the Society for Applied Anthropology's 67th Annual Meeting • March 27 - 31, 2007 Hyatt Regency Tampa
Brian Burke wins 2006 Nash-Roseberry Student Paper Prize - January 2007
The 2006 Nash-Roseberry Student Paper Prize from the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology was awarded to Brian Burke for a paper based on his work with the Latin American Co-operatives project: “Historical and Contemporary Globalizations and Indigenous Power in the Brazilian Amazon.” The article will appear in the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. A summary will be in the next issue of Anthropology News.
Dr. Richard Stoffle - Alaska Talks - December 2006
Dr. Richard Stoffle, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, presented free public lectures in Anchorage, Seward, Fairbanks and Nenana. His presentation is entitled: "Powerful Connections: The Paths of the Southern Paiute in a Volcanic Landscape." Dr. Stoffle's lecture is sponsored by the Alaska Anthropological Association Public Education Group through a grant from the Alaska Humanities Forum.
Blackfeet Site Survey - December 2006
M. N. Zedeño and her research assistants Kacy Hollenback (University of Arizona) and Dale Fenner (Blackfeet Community College) conducted a field survey and assessment of Blackfeet sacred sites and traditional use areas along the Birch Creek watershed, Lewis and Clark National Forest, Montana
Social Justice Project Update - June 2006
Baha Science - January 2006
- Read the report: "Fishing, Trophic Cascades, and the Process of Grazing on Coral Reefs" in January's edition of the journal Science - Acrobat reader required
- Listen to NPR's January 6, 2006 Science Friday interview with Dan Brumbaugh, co-investigator
West Awarded UCAR Fellowship - December 2005
Director's Holiday Message - December 2005
Social Justice Project - November 2005
Niger Direct - October 2005
Louisiana Gulf Hurricane Information
- Katrina in Context: Understanding Impacts in Light
of Southern Louisiana's Social and Environmental Landscapes
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