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Ginna Babcock (gbabcock@uidaho.edu), Associate Professor of Sociology, currently directs service-learning efforts at the University of Idaho through the Civic Education Project. Her duties include faculty development, assistance, and outreach. She continues her research in pedagogy with a 5-year study of the "freshman-only" general education curriculum and its effect on student success.
Leah Evans-Janke (leahe@uidaho.edu), Museum Curator, has been working with the Anthropology Lab in cleaning and cataloging artifacts excavated in 1987 from the Idaho Power Building and Lincoln Stamp Mill in Silver City, Idaho. The Lab is currently analyzing the artifacts and will present a paper on their preliminary findings in April at the Northwest Anthropological Conference in Boise.
Rodney Frey (rfrey@uidaho.edu), Professor, Anthropology, is involved to two big projects right now: consulting for the Coeur d'Alene Tribal School, helping develop cultural curriculum to infuse throughout grades k-8; and is working with the Nez Perce and Coeur d'Alene tribes, developing a set of educational and resource Internet modules that will tell the Lewis and Clark story from their perspectives, involving extensive interviewing and creating streaming videos for the web site.
Eric Jensen (ericj@uidaho.edu), Professor, Sociology/Justice Studies, is conducting research and lectures in Denmark during the spring semester of 2001-2002. He is also studying the creation and content of drug policies in the newly independent states of Central and Eastern Europe.
Robert Martin (rmartin@uidaho.edu), Senior Instructor, Sociology, is on the Community Advisory Board of Hospice of the Palouse. During the Christmas break he traveled to the Tri-cities to obtain ideans for developing a Hospice House on the Palouse.
John Mihelich (jmihelic@uidaho.edu), Assistant Professor, Anthropology/Sociology, is currently involved in a multimedia music/ethnography project (see this issue of the newsletter for more details); he is teaching a new Core Discover class entitled Time Warps: Religion, Science, Technology and Cultures of Time; and is continuing his research on the community of Butte, Montana and on the critical analysis of popular culture.
Laura Putsche (putsche@uidaho.edu), Assistant Professor, Anthropology, is working on an article that addresses impacts of tourism on the Shipibu of the Peruvian Amazon. She will be returning to Peru to conduct more field work among the Shipbus this summer.
Gary Reed (greed@uidaho.edu), Assistant Professor, Justice Studies, is collaborating with Eric Jensen on a grant from the Idaho Department of Corrections to evaluate research on correctional education and substance abuse programs.
Lee Sappington (roberts@uidaho.edu), Associate Professor, Anthropology, is doing archaeological consulting/monitoring for various state, federal and local agencies, including the Nez Perce and Coeur d'Alene tribes. He has a lead article coming out in the next issue of North American Archaeologist, co-authored with Sarah Schuknecht-McDaniel, a recent graduate student.
Debbie Storrs (dstorrs@uidaho.edu), Assistant Professor, Sociology, recently published her co-edited book, "Making a Difference: University Students of Color Speak Out" which profiles students' narratives and provides an analysis of student stories. She is actively involved in a number of diversity committees at the UI campus in pursuit of creating a more positive diversity climate.
Donald Tyler (dtyler@uidaho.edu), Chair and Professor, Anthropology, is continuing research, begun in 1991, of early humans in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia. He also continues to describe, present at professional meetings, and publish articles of new fossils of Homo erectus from Java. These fossils date from 1.6 to 1.0 million years ago.
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