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Angela Lewellyn Jones has been named associate dean of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ College, the College of Arts and Sciences, effective June 1.

On April 24, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ anthropology students Katie Walker and Matt Summers accompanied Rissa Trachman, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, to volunteer on a state-sponsored archaeology project at historic Alamance Battleground.

Anne Bolin was invited to organize and co-chair a symposium titled "Issues in Teaching Human Sexuality: Sexual Orientations" at the Annual Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Merida, Mexico, from March 24-27.

A letter from two ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students to U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, in which they urge the Massachusetts senator to support legislation that funds the development of nuclear energy technology, is a finalist in a contest that will be judged April 8 by prominent former lawmakers at a Project Pericles conference in New York City.

Professor Tom Arcaro and associate professor Anthony Hatcher co-authored a column on atheism for the March 28, 2010, Sunday "Ideas" section of the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.

Kim Jones, an assistant professor of anthropology, chaired a session at the 70th annual international conference of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Merida, Mexico, from March 23-27, 2010. More than 5,400 practicing and applied anthropologists from across the Americas and across the globe were registered for the conference.

Senior Julia Roberts, an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Honors Fellow, and Kim Jones, assistant professor of anthropology, published an article about access to HIV testing in Brazil in the fall/spring 2009 issue of Southern Anthropologist, a peer-reviewed journal of the Southern Anthropological Society.

Erin Barnett '09 won an Honorable Mention - Long Form Award in the 2010 Student Documentary Competition of the Broadcast Education Association for her work, “My Name is Anita," a film she produced as a student to introduce viewers to an HIV/AIDS activist in Namibia.

Tom Mould, an associate professor of anthropology, was quoted in the Feb. 6 edition of the Wall Street Journal for a remembrance story on Phillip Martin, a leader of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians who died earlier in the month.