Anthropology

Susan Trail, a former assistant superintendent at Antietam National Battlefield, has been named the national park's new superintendent, according to a news release from the National Park Service. Trail, who has served for the past eight years as...

—With the debate over raising the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling heading into its final stretch, President Barack Obama will visit the University of Maryland on Friday for a town hall meeting the White House said will be focused on the...

The following area students were awarded Bachelor of Arts degrees May 14 from St. Mary's College of Maryland. -  Skylar Ann Bauer of Mount Airy, Md., graduated summa cum laude with a major in anthropology. Bauer also earned minors in philosophy and...

Virginia M. Fields, a leading scholar of early Mesoamerican art and archaeology who joined the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's curatorial staff in 1989 and devoted 22 years to making the museum a vital center of Latin American culture — partly by...

Seated on the shady porch in view of her lush and flowering El Centro backyard, professional singer and actress Gloria  Uribe “Michaels” Brister sips a cup of hot English-style tea and sighs contentedly as she pets the purring orange tabby...

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott isn't making friends with anthropologists. The governor has singled out the field numerous times over the past few days when talking about the need for more science and engineering professionals. On a Daytona radio show...

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott plans to start unveiling his 2012 legislative agenda in Orlando tomorrow, but teased Capitol-area business leaders Tuesday that it will focus on “job creation and economic growth priorities” along with his...

The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — A day after Gov. Rick Scott told a group of business leaders the state didn't need any more anthropology graduates, the Associated Press revealed his daughter, Jordan Kandah, has an anthropology degree. &#...

TALLAHASSEE — Good morning and happy Thursday. Here are the top five stories you should be reading this morning. The Sun-Sentinel/Orlando Sentinel reports on the cash that has flowed in from well monied health care and gaming interests. From the...

Gov. Rick Scott says he wants to cut funding for college programs that aren't directly related to workforce demands.  He has repeatedly singled out anthropology  as a a field where he says there isn't a lot of need for new graduates – a move that...

TALLAHASSEE– State University System Chancellor Frank Brogan was plugging the state's public universities at a meeting of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education Appropriations when he got a question that took a jab at Gov. Rick Scott. Rep....

Rick Scott's recipe for improving education in Florida is simple. Spend the state's money wisely. Here's what Scott means by spending state money wisely: “We're spending a lot of money on education, and when you look at the results, it's not great,&...