The students are in the talented and gifted program and have studied archaeology. They will dig for and examine skeletal remains, study X-rays, learn about mummies, write their names in hieroglyphics and draw cave art.

The anthropology outreach program is co-sponsored by Quinnipiac’s anthropology program and the university’s Bristol-Myers Squibb Center for Science, Teaching and Learning.

“The Alice Peck students will get hands-on experience in conjunction with what they are learning in their own program,” said Jaime Ullinger, assistant professor of anthropology. “They will have the opportunity to visit a real lab at a university and get a sense of what anthropologist actually do. They will learn that anthropology is a real career that they may choose to pursue.”

Quinnipiac students will work alongside the 10- and 11-year-old students.

About Quinnipiac University

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