BAS 2001 Annual Report

ANNUAL REPORT 2001
BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY SECTION

The Biological Anthropology Section has continued to recruit student involvement at the annual AAA meetings through announcements of our Student Poster Award. Announcements about the award were sent electronically this year.

Membership is slightly up from 444 Regular Members as of September 30, 2000 to 458 Regular Members as of September 30, 2001.

Whenever space permits, we staff an information booth at the Annual meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in an effort to increase visibility of BAS activities and recruit new BAS/AAA members.

We contributed $500 to help GAD pay for a speaker at the 2000 AAA meetings, and hope to continue to provide such support for AAA speakers in the future.

We continue to seek candidate books for the WW Howells Book Award, which is given to the author(s) at the annual meeting.

We approved travel support up to $300 for our elected student member on the BAS executive committee.

We approved an increase of BAS dues from $8 to $10, in part to help support a cash bar following our annual business meetings, to begin at the 2001 meetings. We approved up to $250 of our budget for the cash bar, with the idea of attracting more biological anthropologists, who attend the AAA meetings, to our business meeting where we hope they will become more active in BAS activities.

With generous funding from The Decade of the Brain, we will have an invited lecture from Dr. Frans de Waal in association with our 2001 business meeting and cash bar reception. The timing of our business meeting was shifted to highlight BAS prominence at the annual AAA meetings.

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