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AAA Virtual High School Internship Projects

Anthropology News

This summer, tthe AAA hosted three interns through the Virtual High School Internship , and throughout the summer, the interns engaged in a variety of enriching activities: Research Projects: They read scholarly research articles, took them apart to see how they were constructed, and communicated their methods and findings to diverse audiences.

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Next Steps: My Career Moving Forward

Anthropology 365

After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. I promised her that I would go back to school and complete my bachelor’s degree. I was accepted into several master’s programs in various fields: anthropology, sexuality studies, anthrozoology, and visual anthropology.

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From Darkness to Infinite

Anthropology News

This piece was selected as a runner-up of the AAA’s AnthroDay Student Unessay Competition in the high school division. This year’s unessay competition focused on the topic of Technology and how it has impacted human life or society. The post From Darkness to Infinite appeared first on Anthropology News.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. On January 15, two days before the start of the 2024 school year, I joined 50 grade eight students and their guardians for an orientation at Launch, a high school in one of Cape Town’s oldest townships.

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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. WATER INSECURITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The statistics on rising water insecurity are distressing. An estimated “1.8

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Donald E. Brown 

Anthropology News

Following elementary and high school education in Sioux Falls, he moved to Los Angeles near relatives, and took a summer job at North American Aviation (NAA). After army service, in 1959, Brown returned to El Camino and declared anthropology as his major. He transferred to UCLA to continue his anthropology courses with M.

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How colleges can become ‘living labs’ for combating climate change 

The Hechinger Report

Over the past decade, a growing number of professors in fields as diverse as business, English and the performing arts have integrated their teaching with efforts to minimize their campuses’ waste and emissions, at a time when human-created climate change is fueling dangerous weather and making life on Earth increasingly unstable.