Anthropology Majors Win IDEAS Scholarships for AAPA 2019
Undergraduate Anthropology majors Stacy-Anne Parke and Xaulanda Thorpe have been selected to participate in the Increasing Diversity in the Evolutionary Anthropological Sciences (IDEAS) Workshop at the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (#AAPA2019) in Cleveland, Ohio this coming March.
The workshop includes 15 IDEAS Student Scholars (both undergraduate and graduate) matched with 15 IDEAS Faculty. The day-long meeting includes scientific presentations by faculty scholars, thematically and topically focused mentoring groups, and introduction to tools, resources, and practices to help meet the challenges and opportunities faced by students from racialized minority groups traditionally underrepresented in biological anthropology and first generation college students.
As IDEAS Student Scholars, each student will receive a travel stipend, lodging at the conference venue, a waiver of registration fees, and up to a three-year waiver of AAPA membership fees.
Both students work with Prof. Christopher Schmitt in the Department of Anthropology’s Sensory Morphology and Genomic Anthropology Lab (SMGAL).
Congratulations to Stacy-Anne and Xaulanda!