Congratulations to Dr. Richard E. Ferdig, RCET Summit Professor for Learning Technologies, on the release of two new books. Both books are accessible for free download. The Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning is an edited collection of chapters of examining research in K-12 online and blended learning, - where we have been, what we currently know, and future directions for research in multiple areas. Society, Culture, and Technology: Ten Lessons for Educators, Developers, and Digital Scientists engages educators, developers, and digital scientists in appreciating and...
Dr. Eren and colleagues Drs. O'Brien and Buchanan just published a new book on the evolution of stone tool technology. It is available through amazon.com: ...
Congratulations Michelle and Mike! PhD student Michelle Bebber and undergraduate student Michael Wilson received the prestigious Student Paper Award from the Society of American Archaeology (SAA). They were honored at the annual SAA meeting in Washington, D.C. on Friday, April 13, 2018. Bebber and Wilson are members of Dr. Metin Eren's Experimental Archaeology Laboratory. From the announcement at the award ceremony: 鈥淢ichelle Bebber and Mike Wilson's paper "Untapped Potential 鈥 Why weren鈥檛 ceramic arrowheads invented? Theoretical Morphology for Understanding the Human Past" ...
On May 25th, the President of Kyoto University, Dr. Juichi Yamagiwa, kindly met with KSU Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Anthony Tosi. Dr. Tosi was introduced to the President by Dr. Takakazu Yumoto, Director of the Primate Research Institute (PRI) of Kyoto University, and Dr. Hirohisa Hirai, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the PRI. In 2015, President Yamagiwa formulated the WINDOW concept as a framework for training Kyoto University students to meet the global challenges of the 21st century. One of the pillars of WINDOW is greater internationalizat...
Dr. Hirohisa Hirai, Professor of Kyoto University and former Director of the Primate Research Institute (PRI), retired at the end of March. In his honor, a two-day symposium on 鈥淕enome and Cell Biology of Primates鈥 was held at the PRI in Inuyama, Japan. Former students from throughout Japan, and long-time collaborators from Indonesia, Korea, Italy, and the United States gave presentations on research stemming from, and developed with, Dr. Hirai. Topics included chromosome evolution, genetic introgression, transposable elements, taste receptor evolution, cognitive genomics, an...
For anyone who has traveled to 性福五月天 over the summer, the Summit Street construction project has been quite an inconvenience for drivers. For Lauren Kinsman-Costello, though, it鈥檚 an opportunity to make the campus more ecologically friendly and establish trends in biology, chemistry, geology and ecology. The assistant professor of biological sciences has been leading a team of student researchers in the study of a wetland area along Summit Street near Campus Center Drive. Kinsman-Costello has been working on the project almost since she came to 性福五月天 in 2014. She said the fo...
The March 3rd hackathon event hosted by the 性福五月天 Student Chapter for American Computing Machinery-Women and the Research Center for Education Technology (RCET) provided a day full of STEAM opportunities for 30 girls from 11 different middle and high schools in Summit, Portage & Tuscarawas counties. The day kicked off with Alicia Robinson, Executive Director and Founder of Limitless Ambition, and Xyla Foxlin, CEO and Founder of Parihug and the YouTube page Beauty and the Bolt, speaking about what inspires them as young women and giving advice to the group about achieving success. G...
Dr. Metin Eren and PhD student Michelle Bebber were featured on Discovery Channel's Daily Planet show Watch the video here (it is the first story of the segment, beginning at ~ the 1 minute mark) ...
Please join us in congratulating our graduate students on their awards! Four of our graduate students received awards from Graduate Student Senate (GSS). Michelle Bebber, PhD student, received an International Travel Award to go to Paris this summer to present her research project called "Untapped Potential 鈥 Why weren鈥檛 ceramic arrowheads invented? Theoretical Morphology for Understanding the Human Past鈥 at the "Integrating Ballistics into Archaeology" symposium at UISPP which is a global conference for the International Union of the Prehistoric and Protohistoric Scienc...
Rick Feinberg Named Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Anthropology in Czech Republic Richard (Rick) Feinberg, Professor of Anthropology, has been named Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Anthropology at Palack媒 University Olomouc in the Czech Republic. Dr. Feinberg will spend spring semester 2019 with the Department of Sociology, Andragogy, and Cultural Anthropology in the University鈥檚 Faculty of Arts, where he will teach courses in cultural and social theory and American culture. The theoretically-focused course will be designed for advanced graduate students in the anthropology program...