• Congratulations to Prof. Natasha Myers for winning an Ontario Early Research Award for a project that examines how plants are acquiring new status and visibility in our culture.This ethnographic research will shed light on the ethical and political significance of these shifts in perception about nonhuman life and the order of things.
• Congratulations to Prof. Natasha Myers, Leslie Jermyn, Karen McGarry, Karl Schmid and Tim Epp for their nominations for the Ian Greene Award for Teaching Excellence!
• Prof. David Murray's new book, "Flaming Souls: Homosexuality, Homophobia and Social Change in Barbados" has been published by University of Toronto Press.

• Prof. Kathryn Denning was interviewed by Wired Science on "The Anthropology of Searching for Aliens." Prof. Denning studies "the very human way that scientists, engineers and members of the public think about space exploration and the search for alien life."
• Class video goes viral on YouTube! “Barter That,” a parody of Young Money’s “Roger That” video was produced by students in a York University anthropology class.
• Summer Courses are open for registration! Offerings include courses at all year levels.
• York graduate, Gabriella Torres (now a professor at Wheaton College, MA) has been awarded the 2011 Best Article Prize, for "Precursors to Femicide: Guatemalan Women in a Vortex of Violence" published in the Latin American Research Review.

• May 18, 2012. Prof. Zulfikar Hirji is curating the "Immortal Body symposium." It explores euro-centric, racialized, gendered, and classist biases embedded in scientific practices and conceptions of the human body and life itself. It does so through a range of productive conversations between scientists and artists who explore and debate these issues through their lives, work and practices. See the Yfile story.

• April 20-22, 2012. Prof. Natasha Myers co-organized the "The Politics of Care in Technoscience" workshop. Keynote speaker was anthropologist Charis Thompson.

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