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	The Janet Fitchen Student Development Fund enabled senior anthropology majors Andrew Eigenraugh, Leigh Chapman, Jennifer McDonald, and Alison Riley to attend the annual meetings of the American Anthropology Association, held in Washington, D.C., in November. The students were hosted by Sangita Sigdyal '95 and Kirsten Strausbaugh '97, who are both working in Washington. Mary Ann Levine, anthropology, recently presented her research on the use of native copper by indigenous peoples in the past at both the Society for American Archaeology meeting in Nashville and the American Anthropological Association meeting in Washington, D.C. With assistance from a summer research grant, she initiated a new project, the "Cayuga Lake Archaeology Project," which resulted in the discovery of several previously unknown archaeological sites of great antiquity. At the start of this academic year she was appointed editor in chief of the Northeastern Anthropological Association newsletter, a resource distributed to 600 anthropologists three times a year. Michael Malpass, anthropology, has presented three papers and a workshop at national and regional conferences over the past two years. At the 15th Northeast Conference of Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, held at the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, he presented a paper entitled "Excavations at Sonay in the Camana Valley, Peru," coauthored with two former Ithaca College students, Anthony Puglisi '97 and Jason Kerschner '97. At the 62nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in Nashville in 1997, the same three authors presented a paper entitled "Wari on the South Coast of Peru: The Site of Sonay in the Camana Valley." At the same meetings, Malpass presented a workshop with faculty member John Barr, math and computer science, entitled "Virtual Reality Presentation of Site Environment." Finally, the author presented a paper at the 16th Northeast Conference of Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, held at the University of Maine in 1997, entitled "Preceramic Lomas Exploitation Along the Coast of Peru." Joel Savishinsky, anthropology, has had work appear in two recent publications. A poem entitled "Shape" appeared in XANADU, Volume 19, and "Understanding Life Backwards" appeared in the book The Cultural Context of Aging: Worldwide Perspectives. Garry Thomas, anthropology, is the coauthor of two papers and numerous contributions published recently in the "Compilation of Discussion Papers and Contributions Made to the E-Conference on Addressing Natural Resource Conflicts through Community Forestry, January-April 1996," the proceedings of a conference for which he served as moderator. With 450 subscribers from 55 nations, the e-mail conference, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, is the largest of its kind organized to date by the United Nations. Thomas plans to continue his work in environmental dispute resolution and collaborative forest management for the FAO in both Rome and Tanzania during his 1998-99 sabbatical.