Are you Latinx? Are you NOT vaccinated for Covid? Do you live or work in the South Region (Chula Vista, National City, Sweetwater, Bonita, Imperial Beach, Otay Mesa, San Ysidro )? Are you MALE or nonbinary? If so, SDSU's branch of the CommuniVax project needs you! Led by anthropologists, CommuniVax is a national alliance of social scientists, public health experts, and community advocates who are listening to local viewpoints and developing stable, local systems that enable underserved groups to exercise collective agency over their own health and wellness. For more information about being interviewed, go to https://cal.sdsu.edu/research/communivax or contact Griselda Cervantes at (619) 693-6130 or communivax@sdsu.edu. 
Congratulations Dr Sobo on your latest peer-reviewed research publication, "Cultural conformity and cannabis care in the wake of intractable pediatric epilepsy," just out this week in Medical Anthropology. Part of a special issue on biomedicine's 'shadowside,' the paper explores how parents experience the iatrogenic effects their children's pharmaceutical overmedication, often casting this as inevitable – and as productive of evidence necessary to finding better options in cannabis. Click https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2021.1893583 to read the abstract and access the article. 
💥🎈🎉 Congratulations to Alumna Chyna Lee, for her 'Center for American Archaeology Women in Archaeology Internship Program' award - well done! This internship is for women undergraduates, graduate students, and archaeologists in the early stages of their careers. Funded by a generous grant from the Monticello College Foundation, the Women in Archeology Internship provides an opportunity for participants to enhance their professional skills in research planning, field and laboratory supervision, teaching, and public outreach as part of the CAA’s award-winning programs. 
💥Josh Trinidad is our of anthropology's three (3!) Master's Research Scholarship winners this year. 🤩 Trinidad's research aims to examine the behavioral ecology of endangered moor macaques (Macaca maura) in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Specifically, he will explore how the provisioning (i.e., feeding) of a habituated group of moor macaques by humans from vehicles along a two-lane road shapes the nature of human-macaque interactions and macaque movement patterns. Ultimately, he aims to use this research to help inform conservation efforts, to provide insight into the behavioral plasticity of non-human primates in anthropogenic environments, and to assist in the mitigation of human-macaque conflict. 🎖 Congratulations!! 🎉 🎈 🎊 
🐣 it’s out! If you haven’t seen our graduation videos were in for a treat. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/gLA969D0icA Congratulations class of 2021! 
Congratulations SHANNON FARNSWORTH, winner of a 21-22 Masters Research Scholarship from SDSU. Ms. Farnsworth’s MA thesis focuses on The Lost Murals of San Diego State. These student-created pieces of art were meant to be permanent and lacked individual ownership, serving as the people’s art. These lost and newly restored murals can give those of us in the present insight into the campus and community attitudes during significant events and historic affairs in the past. Despite the fact that the study of murals and mural preservation is lacking within the historical archaeology discipline, Shannon will argue that it fits well within the scope of the field. This is one argument to which we all can look forward! 
👩🏽🎓The Association for Latinx & Latina/o Anthropologists presents the final meeting of our Mapping Academia Series for the academic year. We will be discussing strategies for constructing healthy mentoring relationships, discussing boundaries and strategies for relationship building in academia. May 28 | 9-10AM Speakers: Dr. Leo Chavez | Professor | UC Irvine Dr. Jonathan Rosa | Associate Professor at Stanford University Register here: bit.ly/ALLAMay Organized by: Association of Latina/o & Latinx Anthropologists For further assistance contact: Cecilia Vasquez | civasquez@umass.edu