Month: October 2021

Congratulations to Nardos Shiferaw!

Recently our 2nd year graduate student Nardos Shiferaw won a competitive grant from the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research on Women & Girls of Color at UConn’s Africana Studies Institute. The grant will fund Nardos’ research project entitled “Structural Racism and Covid-19: Black Women’s Experiences of Health in Entwined Pandemics” – a pilot project where she will recruit Black women from immigrant backgrounds employed as essential workers to journal online with the Pandemic Journaling Project, then meet for follow-up interviews.

A luncheon was held on 10/27 in the Homer Babbidge Library to honor the recipients, and naturally we want to join in offering our congratulations!

Archaeological Science Weekend Courses

It’s that time of the year again where the Spring selection of courses have been made available! We are excited to announce that once again, among our other great courses, we are offering four weekend courses in archaeological science, each worth 1 credit. This year we are offering a statistics course using R, a microscopy and botany course, a table isotopes course, and a course on Arch GIS. This is a great opportunity to experience some practical scientific archaeology, learn a bit, and also earn a few credits while doing it! Check out the flier for more information or contact gideon.hartman@uconn.edu.