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Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN  46556

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Field Museum

Students will travel to Chicago for an overnight stay (all hotel and transportation costs will be covered by the Program).  On this trip, participants will tour the Field Museum’s Near Eastern collections.  Several members of the Anthropology faculty will discuss their research in archaeology, conservation, lithics, etc.  

After this “insider’s tour” of the museum collections, students will be allowed to visit the exhibits of their choice throughout the museum.  This summer the Museum will be hosting a special exhibit titled:  Dinosaurs -  Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries.

Oriental Institute Museum @ the University of Chicago

Students will also visit the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago on this trip, to see the Near Eastern collections at the Institute. 

Nile Restaurant

The class will also enjoy a meal at the Nile Restaurant, an Arabic cafe that serves many of the dishes they might sample in Jerusalem. 

Center for Environmental Science & Technology @ Notre Dame

Notre Dame has a very large endowment specifically targeted for the purchase and maintenance of state-of-the-art analytical equipment, housed in the College of Engineering but available to all the sciences on campus.  The students will tour this facility to see the instrumentation available for their research projects. 

Field Trip ‘Fotos’

This portion of the curriculum will take students to laboratories and research institutions,  to witness multiple career options in laboratory research, a medical school setting, and museum curation.

Students will travel to:

1.     the Indiana University School of Medicine at Indianapolis. Members of the medical faculty will speak to students on the year’s research focus;
   

2.     Chicago’s Field Museum for a tour of the Near Eastern collections.
   

3.     the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. Students will tour the Near Eastern collections at the Institute;
   

4.     the Nile Restaurant in Chicago for a full Palestinian meal.  This tasty outing also helps illustrate first-hand the diversity of foods common to the region;
   

5.     the Center for Environmental Science and Technology in the College of Engineering for an overview of the analytical equipment needed for their studies.

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Field Trip Speakers & Guides --

1. ✦James Phillips, Ph.D. -- Field Museum
   

2. ✦Anne Underhill, Ph.D. -- Field Museum
   

3. ✦Sibel Kusimba, Ph.D. -- Field Museum
   

4. ✦Dennis Birdsell, MS -- Center for Environmental Science & Technology
   

5. ✦David Burr, Ph.D. -- Indiana University School of Medicine
   

6. ✦Alex Robling, Ph.D. -- Indiana University School of Medicine
   

7. ✦Emily Teeter, Ph.D. -- University of Chicago Oriental Institute