11/01/2018
Grant funded dementia care education available for Ohio nursing homes
The Eden Alternative, in collaboration with the Ohio Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, is seeking Medicare and/or Medicaid participating nursing homes in Ohio that are inspired to make a difference in the lives of those who live with dementia.
11/01/2018
Anthropologist Jason De Leon describes the plight of migrants in the "Land of Open Graves" at the U.S.-Mexican border
Jason De Leon came to Miami on Oct. 18 to deliver the 2018 Faber Scholar Lecture in honor of International Archaeology Day, presented by the Department of Anthropology and University Honors Program
10/30/2018
Miami Student Spends Summer Researching Smithsonian African Art Collection
Miami student completes prestigious and competitive Curatorial Internship at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
10/25/2018
Miami Tribe of Oklahoma awarded national honor for cultural and language revitalization
The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma has received a prestigious national award recognizing its cultural heritage and language revitalization program.
10/25/2018
Misinterpretation of Early Archaeology Led to Stories of Aliens and Witches
Dr. Jeb Card discusses his latest book, "Spooky Archaeology: Myth and Science of the Past"
10/25/2018
Oxford University fellowship allows close study of Elizabeth I
Associate professor Kaara Peterson was recently elected to a Spring 2019 Plumer Visiting Research Fellowship at St. Anne's College, and an appointment as a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Early Modern Studies, both at Oxford University.
10/22/2018
Literature professor to study Renaissance bodies, health, and medicine in Venice
Starting this coming spring, Cynthia Klestinec will be a senior visiting professor at the University of Venice, Ca'Foscari, where she will collaborate with faculty and students and conduct research on her project: The Officina* of the Surgeon: Bodies, Health, and Medicine in Renaissance Venice.
10/17/2018
Family satisfaction Miami-Minnesota collaboration published in the Journal of Applied Gerontology
Key factors for family satisfaction with nursing homes similar across states. In recent months, news headlines have included numerous investigations into cases of nursing home staff shortages and resident maltreatment — many of which were reported by the families of vulnerable residents.
10/16/2018
"Locate, excavate, and contextualize": collaborative-community research in Indigenous communities
On October 1, Mindy Morgan presented a lecture, "Untangling the Web: Indigenous Linguistic and Cultural Knowledge and Americanist Anthropology," which explored the synthesis of her work from the last 20 years focusing on the opportunities and challenges of linguistic and cultural revitalization of Native American communities
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