SSHB officers, contact details and committee members
Medicine and Evolution: Current Applications, Future Prospects out now
Edited by Sarah Elton and Paul O'Higgins, Medicine and Evolution, the Society's 48th symposium volume explores the interface between evolutionary biology and medical practice. The editors, both based at the Hull York Medical School, were keen to assess whether evolutionary approaches could be used fruitfully in medicine. (October 2008.)
A list of other symposia volumes can be found under publications.
Student prize at the 2008 50th Anniversary meeting
Lisa Cashmore, a PhD student in the Department of Archaeology at Southampton University, was the winner of the prize for best student presentation at the 50th Anniversary Meeting. Lisa, who is due to submit her thesis later in the year, critically assessed whether it was possible to assess handedness in fossil humans. (May 2008.)
Postgraduate Student Travel Prize 2008
Congratulations to Chrissie Bailey of the Department of Human Sciences, Loughborough University, who has won an SSHB postgraduate student travel prize. Chrissie will use her award to present a paper on the effects of high-impact unilateral exercise. (May 2008.)
In Memoriam: Stanley Garn and Carol Livingstone
The end of August saw the loss of two extraordinary members of our community of scholars. The Garns and the Livingstones were great friends and colleagues at the University of Michigan for several decades, and both couples taught and influenced literally hundreds, and through those, thousands of students in biological anthropology. The spirits, intelligence, generosity, and remarkable wits of Stanley & Priscilla and Frank & Carol are not easily matched. We will miss standing on their shoulders.
Stanley Garn died on the morning of 31 August. His daughter, Barbara, was in town with him and is now caring for her mother, Priscilla, who is in a rehabilitation center in Detroit.
Roberto Frisancho (arfrisan@umich.edu) is handling inquiries concerning memorials and contacts for condolences.
Carol Livingstone, wife of the late Frank Livingstone, died on the morning of 28 August. The celebration of her life will be held at the Shouvlin Center at Wittenberg University (Springfield, Ohio) on Sept. 15 at 2:00. Her daughter, Amy, can be reached at alivingstone@wittenberg.edu.
Her obituary may be found here. (September 2007.)
Student prizes at the 2007 proffered papers meeting
The student prize winners at this year's proffered papers meetings were Chiedza Zingoni for the best oral presentation, and Laura Jones for the best poster. Both are students at Loughborough University. Chiedza's presentation examined the nutrition transition in South Africa, focusing on adolescent diet and body composition. Laura's presented research was also conducted in South Africa, examining secular trends in age at menarche in urban females. They contributed to a very successful proffered papers meeting, which included speakers from as far afield as Lithuania and Indiana, and covered topics as diverse as tobacco usage in Bangladesh and late nineteenth century Irish migration. (June 2007.)
Ageing Well: symposium volume now on sale
Edited by Alan Dangour, Emily Grundy and Astrid Fletcher, Ageing
Well, the 47th SSHB symposium volume is now
on sale. Published by CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), Ageing Well:
Nutrition, Health and Social Intervention examines the changing
needs of older people from a multi-disciplinary perspective. A flyer
for the volume can be downloaded here. (May 2007.)
A list of other symposium volumes can be found under publications.
Postgraduate Student Travel Prize 2007
Congratulations to Sarah Hamilton and Pieta Nasanen-Gilmore, both of the Department of Human Sciences, Loughborough University, who have each won an SSHB postgraduate student travel prize. Sarah will use her award to present a paper on summer to winter variability in UK adult step counts at the American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in New Orleans in June. Pieta attended the Human Biology Association in March, to give a paper on household pollution in Bangladesh and its links to poor health and stunting in young children. (April 2007.)