Faculty, graduates, and students affiliated with UConn ANTH presenting at the SfAA Meetings 3/24-28 in Pittsburgh, PA:

BRAULT, Marie A. (UConn), SINGH, Rajendra and JAGTAP, Vaishali (Int’l Ctr for Rsch on Women) Multi-Level Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes for Young Women in Low-Income Communities in Mumbai, India

COLON, Richard and CLANCY, Alexander (UConn) A Gentleman Always Tells: Challenging the Way Fraternity Men Talk about Sexual Violence

ERICKSON, Pamela (UConn) College Students’ Knowledge and Perceptions of Privacy and Safety in the Digital Age

FRANK, Cynthia (Yale U), KYRIAKIDES, Tassos (Yale U, VA CT Healthcare System), FRIEDLAND, Gerald and ANDREWS, Laurie (Yale U), KOZAL, Michael (Yale U, VA CT Healthcare) A Study of the Concordance of Knowledge and Beliefs Held by Patients Infected with HIV and Their HIV Health Care Providers Regarding Single Tablet Regimens (STR). (KNABSTR study).

LERMAN, Shir (UConn) An Ugly Paradise: Mental Health, Social Stressors, and Puerto Rico’s Political Status

MARCUS, Ruthanne (Yale U) and SINGER, Merrill (UConn) Assessing the PHAMILIS Syndemic of Homeless Women
RUIZ, Hector (U Pitt) and ABADIA, Cesar (UConn) Latin American Participatory Action Research (PAR) Ethnography. Arts and Collaboration through Hope and Despair at the Colombian Child and Maternity University Hospital

SCHENSUL, Stephen L. (UConn Sch of Med), SCHENSUL, Jean J. (ICR), and BRAULT, Marie (UConn) Translating Ethnography into Intervention.

SINGER, Merrill (UConn), Jose Hasemann (UConn), Abigail Raynor (UConn) “I feel suffocated:” Understandings of Climate Change in an Urban Heat Island.

Faculty and graduates from UConn ANTH presenting at Paleoanthropology Society 2015 Annual Meeting 04/14-15 in San Francisco:

Posters, Tuesday, April 14:
Frahm, E., D. S. Adler, J. M. Feinberg, K. N. Wilkinson and B. Gasparyan. Developing geochemical and magnetic studies of obsidian lithic assemblages: a case study in the Hrazdan, Valley, Central Armenia.

Glauberman, P., B. Gasparyan, S. Kuhn, K. Wilkinson, E. Frahm, Y. Raczynski-Henk,
H. Haydosyan, S. Napapetyan, D. Arakelyan and D. Adler. Hominin population dynamics and dispersals in the Armenian highlands and Anatolia: new data from Barozh 12, a Middle Paleolithic open-air site on the edge of the Ararat Depression, Armenia.

Mant-Melville, A. Impact fracture patterns on experimental basalt points – towards a more robust macro-fracture method.

Oral Presentations, Wednesday, April 15:
Leslie, D. E., S. McBrearty, G. Hartman. Reconstructing Middle Pleistocene landscapes in the Kapthurin Formation using biomass
productivity and stable isotope proxies.

Blegen, N. Evidence of early Middle Stone Age technology and long distance transport of obsidians by later middle Pleistocene hominins at the ~300 ka Sibilo School Road Site (GnJh-79), Kapthurin Formation, Kenya.

Wilkinson, K., D. Adler, S. Blockley, E. Frahm, D. Mark, C. Mallol, S. Nahapetyan, and B. Gasparyan. Paleolandscape context for Lower-Middle Paleolithic activity in the Hrazdan Valley, central Armenia.

Adler, D., K. Wilkinson, S. Blockley, D. Mark, E. Frahm, B. Schmidt-Magee, P. Glauberman, Y. Raczynski-Henk, O. Joris and B. Gasparyan. Early Levallois technology and the transition from the Lower to Middle Paleolithic in the southern Caucasus.

Hartman, G. and A. Brittingham. Was the Younger Dryas of the southern Levant dry, or just cold? Stable isotope evidence from gazelle teeth.