Graduate Highlights

April 2009:

Sarah Kindschuh was selected as one of three winners for Best in Category: Social Science for her poster presentation at the 2009 Graduate Research Forum.

April 2009:

Congratulations to Ms. Amy L. Giroux for winning first place in the Anthropological Sciences Section at the Florida Academy of Sciences annual meeting for her poster "Where Floridians Bury Their Dead: An Analysis of Cemetery Placement". She will receive $25.00 and she has been nominated for the academy-wide UCF Sigma Xi Award and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Award.

December 2008:

Congratulations to former Anthropology BA students, Shayna Michaels and Benjamin Marshal, who married on August 30, 2008. Both also earned master's degrees at UCF (Shayna in Social Science Education and Ben in Business). Shayna teaches high school in Seminole County and Ben is starting a computer LAN business. Shayna also makes art and Ben is writing a novel.

October 2007:

Graduate students from Bipedal Apes (Anthropology Club) participated in the Olympics at UCF, an event to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. They came in second place, but won the BIG trophy for donating the most!The team was, Charles Dionne, Sarah Kindschuh, Roberta Murphy, Mary Rezos, Andy Tetlow, Liz Wallace, and Dennis Wardlaw. Supporters included Lauren Britton, Ed Nuckols, and Jesse Sloan.They would also like to thank the Honor's Congress for hosting the event, they had a blast!For more information please contact Mary Rezos at mrezos@mail.ucf.edu.

October 2006: Stevie Mathews (Anthropology MA, admitted fall 2006) was elected to serve on the Board for the Graduate Student Association

March 2004: Brian Smith was awarded the Graduate Student Honorable Mention Award in Anthropological Sciences at the 68th meeting of the Florida Academy of Sciences.