The Latest

Anthropology Professor Lorraine Plourde on The Urbanist podcast

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 05:00:00 -0500

She discusses her research on the sounds of Tokyo on The Urbanist podcast, "Designing the Sound of Tokyo"

Lip Critic Lands at 57 on Paste’s 100 Best

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:00:00 -0500

The group's debut album, Hex Dealer, makes Paste Magazines's "100 Best Albums of 2024."

The 2024 SUNY Chancellor’s Award Winners

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 04:00:00 -0400

Purchase proudly announces this year's winners of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence: Caitly Dominici and Sara Richter.

Purchase-Bred Lip Critic a “Band to Watch”

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 04:00:00 -0400

Stereogum and others delve into their unique sound ahead of the May 17 release of their debut album Hex Dealer.

Quoted: David Kim in National Geographic

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 05:00:00 -0500

On shamanic practices and "rice divination."

Karen Beltran, Esq. ’02 Appointed Yonkers City Court Judge

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano swore in Beltran at a ceremony at Yonkers City Hall, just steps away from where she grew up.

Alice Selipanov ’21: Visual Approach to Anthropology

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 05:00:00 -0500

For her senior project, she built a sculptural house to demonstrate her ideas.

Professor Shaka McGlotten Named to HFPA Advisory Board

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:00:00 -0400

Professor of Media Studies has been selected to join the advisory board for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the organization behind the Golden Globe Awards.

The Alchemy of Meth by Professor Jason Pine Earns Honorable Mentions

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 05:00:00 -0500

Acknowledged by The Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Society for Humanistic Anthropology.

Renowned Anthropologist David Graeber ’84 Has Died

Fri, 04 Sep 2020 04:00:00 -0400

He was considered by many in the field of anthropology to be one of the most brilliant minds of his generation.

Janette Yarwood ’96 Honored

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 05:00:00 -0500

For contributions to US national security and foreign policy.

Students Attend National STEM Conference

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 05:00:00 -0500

Eleven students explore opportunities in STEM research.

Meth and Modernity

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 05:00:00 -0500

Anthropologist Jason Pine's research into homemade meth production in rural Missouri shows that a backwater drug epidemic is in fact the spectre of an advanced mode of capitalism.

David Frost ’03

Wed, 09 Nov 2016 05:00:00 -0500

Researching LGBT discrimination and its effect on physical and mental health.