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Members of the zoonotic disease research team take blood samples from a dog

Velásquez Runk, Tanner and Dyer part of collaborative and interdisciplinary zoonotic disease project

Associate professors Julie Velásquez Runk and Susan Tanner are part of a collaborative and interdisciplinary current project investigating links between deforestation and the zoonotic diseases leishmaniasis and Chagas Disease.

Ben Steere

Steere gets award for archaeological excellence from Eastern Band of Cherokee

Ben Steere, alum of this department, now a faculty member at Western Carolina University, has won this recent award given by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

 

Victor Thompson Excavates a Calusa civilization shell midden in Florida

Victor Thompson makes an internationally significant find

For many years, UGA archaeologist Victor Thompson and Chester DePratter of the University of South Carolina have worked to excavate and interpret findings from the S.C.


Marilyn Rodriguez joins the department

Marilyn Rodriguez joined our department as Business Manager II at the end of October, in the position formerly held by LaBau Bryan.

David Hecht

David Hecht becomes a NatGeo Young Explorer

David Hecht, Ph.D. student in anthropology and integrative conservation, won a National Geographic Society Young Explorers Grant to support his continuing project work in Bhutan, “Collaborative Watershed Mapping and White-bellied Heron Conservation in S.