Undergraduate Highlights

October 2009:

Congratulations to Wendy Crane on being awarded the Florida Missing Children’s Day 2009 Commissioners Award.  She received the award for her work on Identifying Florida Unidentified Missing Persons. Wendy is currently a Medicolegal Death Investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner. She is also a Diplomate-American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators.

Wendy received her Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology from the UCF in December 2002.

September 2009:

Congratulations to Wendy Crane on being awarded the Florida Missing Children's Day 2009 Commissioners Award. Wendy received her Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Central Florida in December 2002. She received the award for her work on Identifying Florida Unidentified Missing Persons.

Wendy is currently a Medicolegal Death Investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner. She is also a Diplomate-American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators.

April 2009:

Congratulations to the following undergraduate students for winning  first place in the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence  yesterday:

• Michael Napolitano
• Lourdes Villalta
• Jordon Munizzi
• Trent McRae
• Sara Scott

The students were supervised by Dr. John Walker (see faculty page for  profile).Their poster (which will be displayed at the UCF Library) is  entitled:  Archaeological GIS of the Beni. They were awarded first prize in the Social Sciences II category,  which includes a $600 scholarship.

Please see following links for more information:

http://www.showcase.ucf.edu/

http://www.our.ucf.edu/opportunities/sure.php

http://www.showcase.ucf.edu/past/

December 2008:

Former anthropology student Margaret "Tess" Bonacci was formally sworn in as a Peace Corps volunteer; her assignment is in Zambia, where she will be living for two years, focusing on HIV and AIDs education to teenagers.

December 2008:

Congratulations to Zenobia Carver for receiving the Who's Who Among Students at UCF award for the 2007-08 year. Zenobia is a major in Anthropology and Psychology.

April 2008:

Nancy Gillis (undergraduate with Eric Hoffman) received Outstanding Student Poster presentation at the recent 2008 Ocean Sciences conference in Orlando, FL. This was for her research entitled "Genetic Diversity and Population Admixture Contribute to Establishment of Mytella charruana, an Invasive Mussel" which was coauthored by Linda Walters and Eric Hoffman.

November 2007:

Congrats! former anthropology student Margaret "Tess" Bonacci was formally sworn in as a Peace Corps volunteer; her assignment is in Zambia, where she will be living for two years, focusing on HIV and AID's education to teenagers.

November 2007:

Former HIM in Anthropology student Paul Fisk is in his second year of the MA in the Department of Education, Culture, and Society at The University of Utah. He will be presenting papers at two professional conferences this year: LatCrit XI-Latino/a Critical Theory and the AESA-American Educational Studies Association.