College of Social Science
Kathryn Meyers Emery was recently awarded one of the highest honors a graduate student at Michigan State University can receive, the Excellence-in-Teaching Citation, presented at the All-University Awards Convocation on February 9, 2016. She was given this award for both her formal and informal teaching
First place: “Layene religious ceremony” by Emily Riley. Yoff-Layene, Senegal. 2014 Second place: “Vietnamese Boats” by Edward Glayzer. Hue, Vietnam. 2012 Third place: “Peruvian Dyes” by Nicole Williams. Chinchero, Peru. Honorable Mention: “The Duck Delivery” by Edward Glayzer. Hue, Vietnam. 2012 Honorable
This past November, Dr. Najib Hourani was invited to participate in the Harvard Arab Weekend on a panel sponsored by the Graduate School of Design. The annual event brings together notable academics, political figures, business leaders and diplomats to discuss the pressing issues facing the
Graduate student Lisa Bright was awarded the Society for California Archaeology Student Paper Competition in March (2016) for her paper titled “Differentiating Hospital Interred Individuals from the Larger Cemetery Population: The Curious Case of SCVMC’s Buttons.” She drew on data from 2012-2014 excavations of the Santa