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ABM workshops at PAST Foundation
Our awesome research team recently visited the Innovation Lab at the PAST Foundation to run a workshop for middle-school students on systems thinking using NetLogo agent-based modeling software.…

Dr. Brown and Dr. Yotebieng
This semester, Kelly and Chris defended their dissertations and become Dr. Yotebieng and Dr. Brown. Kelly's dissertation is titled The capacity to aspire among Rwandan urban refugee women in…

Paper in Epidemics
Our paper Network analyses of transhumance movements and simulations of foot-and-mouth disease virus transmission among mobile livestock in Cameroon is out in Epidemics. Here is the citation…

Resilience paper out in Land Use Policy
Our paper that examines the resilience of the pastoral property regime in the Logone Floodplain of Cameroon is out in the journal Land Use Policy. Here is the abstract:
Previous studies have…

Mentoring Award for Abby Buffington
Every year, undergraduate students are invited to nominate their research mentor for the Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Awards (offered through The Office Student…

Collaboration across boundaries
Our chapter on adapting to the challenges of interdisciplinary research of coupled systems is out. Here is the full citation. Email me for a copy.
Laborde, Sarah, Sui Chian Phang, and Mark…

Living their way into a new way of thinking
The Department of Anthropology recently changed the course Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (ANTHROP 2202), which has been taught for almost as long as the department has been around, by no…

Crossing boundaries
Initiated by the Pastoralist Knowledge Hub of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and authored by Jonathan Davies et al of the International Union for Conservation of…

Paper in PNAS
Our paper Emergent Sustainability in Open Property Regimes is out in PNAS. In the paper, we compared eight cases with more or less open access to common-pool resources to develop a theoretical…