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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.

Sociology professor Tom Arcaro spoke with News 14 Carolina on Jan. 21 to share observations on the relief efforts underway in Haiti, and how the recent earthquake there has refocused American attention on one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ senior Katie Strickland and her research mentor, sociology professor Tom Arcaro, traveled to New Orleans the weekend of Nov. 13-15 to participate in the annual meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology Conference.

To many Americans, healthy living involves counting calories, watching medical segments on the morning news, or drinking diet soda. Health elsewhere on the planet takes a more active approach, according to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ senior Ryan Bleam, the third student to be featured in a monthly series of E-net profiles on the inaugural class of Lumen Scholars.