The Lam family, Timothy S. Y. Lam (’60), Ellen Lam, his wife, and their sons, Tim Jr. (’93) and Marcus (’98) have created a new academic excellence fund for the Wake Forest Museum of Anthropology. The Museum will be renamed the Timothy S. Y. Lam Museum of Anthropology in honor of Tim Sr. and the Lam family’s support of our mission.
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In 2005, hundreds of earthenware pots and other pre-Columbian artifacts from ancient West Mexico became part of the collections of Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology. The pieces included 162 complete ceramic vessels, ceramic figurines, greenstone beads and necklaces, an obsidian spear and arrow points, knives and grinding stones. An effigy bowl from this Western Mexican Collection is one of three cultural objects inspiring a Blockchain challenge in the upcoming Wake Forest Hackathon March 6 and 7. Others include a Fijian oil bowl discovered by the 18th Century British explorer Captain James Cook, and antiquities from sites in Southwest Niger. In its fourth year, the WFU Hackathon is organized and hosted by Wake Forest computer science students.
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This is a guest post from the Museum of Anthropology:Childhood-Mary-Good
What do children play with in Mexico? How do kids in Somalia learn to read? The Museum of Anthropology’s new long-term exhibit, “Childhood: Exploring Youth Culture Around the World,” answers these and other questions about children’s lives around the globe.
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Guest post from the Museum of Anthropology: With the beginning of the fall semester at Wake Forest University, the Museum of Anthropology is very excited to welcome Dr. Andrew Gurstelle as academic director. Andrew is an anthropologist interested in the history and archaeology […]
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Sara Cromwell, interim assistant director of the Museum of Anthropology, spearheaded an effort to give her student employees a chance to run an exhibit on their own while also giving the Museum a display unlike any it has had before. What resulted is […]
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Stephen L. Whittington, director of Wake Forest’s Museum of Anthropology, has accepted a position as executive director of the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum in Leadville, Colo. As of March 3, Sara Cromwell will serve as interim assistant director and will be […]
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Kyle Elizabeth Bryner, the registrar and collections manager at the Museum of Anthropology, has been elected as the vice-chair of the Southeastern Registrars Association (SERA). The Southeastern Registrars Association (SERA) encourages high standards of museum practice and fosters professional growth among museum registrars in the […]
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See a list of employees joining and leaving the University in September 2013:
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