Elena Sesma is documenting community history using cutting-edge research methods. Through techniques like panoramic photography, community-engaged participation, oral history, as well as traditional archaeology, Sesma, a doctoral candidate in Anthropology, is researching the history and changing landscape in the communities at the former Millars Plantation in the Bahamas.
Sievert and teammates Nicole VanKim and Elizabeth Bertone-Johnson, epidemiology, received their award for a project titled “Sexual Orientation Differences in Menopause Timing and Symptoms.” 
Recent graduate Meg Reynolds has broad interests, and her SBS Internship Award in 2017 helped her explore how they might work in her career path. An Anthropology major with minors in Art and Biology, she interned with the The Resistance Center For Peace And Justice in Northampton, MA. We caught up with her at the end of her senior year, and talked about her experience as an SBS Internship Awarde
Senior Hadiya Williams, an anthropology and psychology major, is among the University of Massachusetts students who will be honored as 21st Century Leaders at Undergraduate Commencement on May 11, 2018. The university honors a group of students each year in this way for their exemplary achievement, initiative and leadership. 
Juan José Ibarretxe, former president of the Basque Autonomous Community of Spain and director of the Agirre Lehendakaria Center of Social and Political Studies, will deliver the second annual William Douglass Chair in Basque Cultural Studies Lecture, Tuesday, April 17 at 5 p.m. in the third floor conference room of Gordon Hall at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Ibarretxe’s presentation, “How to Change a Country,” is free and open to the public.