News
Dr. Koji Lum Brings In Malaria Grant
The BMA program's own Koji Lum, in conjunction with Dr. Ralph Garruto, gains multi-million dollar grant to research the evolution of malaria over the past several decades, and reasoning behind its immunity to certain antibiotics.
Dr. Michael Little Wins AAPA Award
Dr. Michael Little, Disintguished Professor of Anthropology, was honored recently with the Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award. The award, granted by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) credits distinguished researchers in the physical anthropological fields.
Doctoral Student Miguel Vilar Receives HBA Award
We are pleased to announce that Miguel Vilar was the 2008 recipient of the Edward E. Hunt Jr. Award at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association in Columbia, Ohio. He is the second Binghamton University Biomedical Anthropology student to receive this honor. The first was Chim Chan in 2006. Miguel’s talk was entitled “The Peopling of the Marianas: An mtDNA Perspective” by M. Vilar, C. Chan, D. Lynch, D. Reiff, R.M. Garruto and J.K. Lum. Based on the mitochondrial DNA analysis, Vilar and colleagues suggest that a small founding population first settled the Mariana Islands from Island South East Asia (ISEA) in the mid-Holocene and developed unique mtDNA mutations in genetic isolation with a possible second migration from ISEA around 1000 ybp (see the published abstract in Am. J. Hum. Biol. 20:237, 2008).
Biomedical Anthropology Internships
The Biomedical MS Program's internship requirement was featured the Binghamton University Magazine.
