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Student Ambassador Empowers Young Women to Make Healthy Choices

Solangel Almonte ’27 (SUNY Geneseo/Matt Burkhartt) Student Ambassador Solangel Almonte ’27 cares deeply about women’s health. A sociomedical sciences major with a minor in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, she intends to dedicate her career to empowering women to make knowledgeable choices about their futures. Almonte has started with young women in her native Dominican Republic. Last summer,

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Massive 3,000-year-old Maya site in Mexico depicts the cosmos and the ‘order of the universe,’ study claims

Photo of Drew O’Neil from 2019 Lamron Article “Student researchers analyze local cemetery records, historical implications” Anthropology News Professor James Aimers was quoted in a Live Science article about new research that suggests a 3,000-year-old Maya site in southeastern Mexico is actually a giant cosmogram, depicting how ancient people at the site viewed the order of the universe.

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Administrative Assistant to Anthropology and Geography and Sustainability Studies Bailey 153/227 (585) 245-5277/(585) 245-5238 wrighta@geneseo.edu Office Hours

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The Woman is the Active Agent: General Practitioners and the Agentive Displacement of abortion in Ireland

Assistant professor of anthropology Brenna McCaffrey Author Brenna McCaffrey Publication Medical Anthropology Quarterly (2024) Summary When abortion is performed via medication rather than a procedure, doctors feel differently about their role in the process Abstract After the legalization of abortion in 2018, Ireland needed clinicians to become abortion providers and make this political win a

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