Prof. Kirch has also won, along with Marshall Sahlin, the 1998 J.I. Staley Prize for their book "Anahulu: the Anthropology of History in the Kindgom of Hawaii." They will receive the award at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia in December.

Professor Junko Habu and Professor Laurie Wilkie recently received awards from the Hellman Family Faculty Fund in support of their respective research proposals. Professor Habu’s research proposal is entitled: Development of Sedentism Among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in Japan; and Professor Wilkie’s is: 1998 Archaeological Excavations at Clifton Plantation, Bahamas. Awards from the Hellman Family Faculty Fund are given to assistant professors who have shown evidence of their promise for distinction in research. Selection as a recipient of a Hellman Family Faculty Fund award is a very great honor.

Prof. Junko Habu has also been awarded the Center for Japanese Studies Research Grant for support of her Sannai Maruyama research project.

Congratulations to Prof. Ruth Tringham who was awarded the 1998 Presidential Chair in Undergraduate Education for excellence in teaching. This 3- year appointment is to encourage new course development and to enhance the quality of existing courses. Prof. Tringham proposes to develop a series of anthropology courses with a group of her colleagues using multimedia technology.

Sidsel Millerstrom, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology, has been awarded the first Michaelis Family Grant in Rock Art Research by the Rock Art Archive.

Kenneth A. McCandless won the 1998 Alfred L. Kroeber Prize for his honors thesis based on "Chemical Characterization and Source Provenance Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts from Puerto Escondido, Honduras," research funded by the Archaeological Research Facility’s Undergraduate Research Award.