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I. The following students received grants for their student-initiated research during the summer:
Klée Aiken: "The Changing Face of Wicker Park: A Look into Gentrification in Chicago's West Town Community Area."
YukShan Li: "Examining the Impact of Gambling on Fuzhounese Immigrant Communities."
Carol Hanson: "Impact of language revitalization on the practice of oral tradition in Hawai'i."
Also, JJ Hall received a Human Rights Fellowship that allowed him to work in Hartford for Lawyers without Borders.
II. Faculty have been busy too:
Beth Notar received a summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project called "Auto-biographies: Car Consumption and Social Mobility in China." Back from her one-year sabbatical, in the fall semester Professor Notar will be teaching a first year seminar as well as Intro. to Anthropology. Her book Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China was named an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association.
Jim Trostle has received grants for his Ecuador research from two sources. The National Science Foundation (NSF) will support for four years a project entitled "Collaborative Research. Agricultural Antibiotics and Human Health: A Multiscale Ecological Approach to the Development and Spread of Antibiotic Resistance." And the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases will support for five more years a renewal of his project in Ecuador entitled "Environmental change and diarrheal diseases: A natural experiment." Trostle will be teaching his course on Medical Anthropology in the Fall.
Fred Errington had a paper published last year in the American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. In the fall, Prof. Errington will be teaching his course on the History of Anthropological Thought. He will be retiring from the College at the end of this academic year.
Jane Nadel-Klein is in the second year of a two-year Trinity Faculty Research grant on gardens and gardening. This fall she will be teaching courses on Gender, Intro., and a seminar on the Anthropology of Place. Professor Nadel-Klein will be on sabbatical in the spring semester.
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