Projects
Departmental and Affiliated Research Groups & Programs
Agricultural GIS Users' Group (Ag-GIS)- A users group dealing with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) as applied to Agriculultural problems.
Archaeometry
Research Graduate Group- Its goal is to familiarize students with
current archaeometric research and to help develop a network of professors
and graduate students who share common interests
and goals.
Bonn Archaeological Software Program (BASP)- is a non-profit software project for and by archaeologists which has been developed cooperatively. It now includes more than 70 functions for seriation, clustering, correspondance analysis, and mapping tools.
Center for Cognitive Science - representation at the University at Buffalo of an academic and private-sector movement, named "cognitive science", that has been expanding over the last two decades both in the U.S. and abroad. This multi-disciplinary group investigates the nature of cognition, i.e., of intellective processes as exhibited either by the human mind or by computer. Most centrally, cognitive science is the study of how the mind works, both in its conceptual organization and in its computational and neural infrastructure.
East Anglican Research Station (EARS) - offers students a chance to do some short-term ethnographic research, gaining practical experience in ethnographic methods without having to learn a foreign language, prior to dissertation fieldwork.
Fort Niagara- This project centers on the creation of a multi-component, interactive web site and on-line data base for archaeology at Fort Niagara.
Graduate Program in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (EEB)- An interdisciplinary graduate program put together by a consortium of faculty from various departments including Anthropology, Biology, Geology, Psychology, and Geography. The program offers a certificate program for students in other departments, including Anthropology, in addition to its own PhD and MS degrees. Our goal is to promote interdisciplinary research and education in the study of evolution, ecology and behavioral ecology.
IGERT- An innovative interdisciplinary program designed for doctoral students in Anthropology, Geography, Geology, Philosophy, Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, and Industrial Engineering. An emerging field that seeks to understand the nature of geographic information and its role in society, and to provide theoretical foundations for GIS and related technology. GIS constitutes a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States with many applications ranging from environmental health, national security, and basic science and engineering.
JD Holland Lithic Laboratory (Buffalo Museum of Science)- The laboratory houses an extensive comparative collection of well- provenienced geological samples of over 3000 lithic material types known to have been used prehistorically throughout North America.
Social
Systems GIS Laboratory- A users group dealing with GIS (Geographic
Information Systems) as applied to Anthropological problems. It is part
of an interdisciplinary research group whose goal is to familiarize students
with GIS.
Time and Memory Workshop A interdisciplinary reading and discussion group, visiting scholars series, and workshop, supported by the UB Humanities Institute.
UB Archaeology Survey- is a not-for-profit research, contracting and applied archaeology institution within the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. It has been engaged in Cultural Resource Management (CRM) projects for over 30 years.
Publications
Anthropology Review Database ARD is intended to improve the level of access of anthropologists to anthropological literature by making them more aware of what is being published and helping them to evaluate its relevance to their own interests.
Discourse - A graduate journal born out of a desire to develop a dialogue between the subfields- to learn just what our fellow students did in their labs and the library, and how one could apply this knowledge to the discipline at large. This journal is currently inactive, although archives are still available.
Journal of World Anthropology (JWA) - An electronic journal dedicated to scholarship in all fields of anthropology, and publishes articles on academic research, matters of theory and methodology, and the education of the public, as well as book, software and film reviews. This journal is currently inactive, although archives are still available.
Worldwide Email Directory of Anthropologists (WEDA) - A global online directory of anthropologists, organisations, and institutions. The database is searchable by personal name, institution, geographic location, and research focus.
Student Groups
Anthropology Graduate Student Association- AGSA holds social events, speakers, student colloquia, and represents graduate students within the department.
Undergraduate Anthopology Club- dedicated to bringing together undergraduate students at SUNY Buffalo, who share an interest in the study of human beings, both their culture and biology, in the past and the present.