CWU Speaker To Discuss Forensic Anthropology

April 21, 2005

Contact: Penelope Anderson (509-963-3201/fax 509-963-3215/e-mail: anderson@cwu.edu)

ELLENSBURG, Wash. - A number of popular TV shows are now being aired dealing with forensic anthropology -- methods and techniques of analyzing skeletal remains in legal cases. Forensic anthropologists help identify individuals who died in disasters, wars, or due to homicide, suicide, or accidental death.

Dr. Stanley Rhine has more than two decades of forensic anthropology experience. He will discuss the profession at Central Washington University on Thursday, April 28, at 6:30 p.m. in Science Building 147 on the Ellensburg campus in a public lecture titled "Forensic Anthropology: Listening to the Bones."

Retired but still active in the profession, Rhine will draw on his work with the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigators, his role as a diplomat and former vice-president of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, and as a former head of the forensic anthropology graduate program at University of New Mexico.

Rhine's presentation is the 2005 Catherine J. MacMillan Distinguished Lecture in Anthropology. The free, public lecture honors the late CWU professor emeritus of anthropology Catherine Jane MacMillan. Known to many as Katie Sands, MacMillan retired from CWU in 1995 after a 27-year teaching career.

For more information about the presentation, sponsored by the CWU anthropology department, or for persons of disability to arrange for reasonable accommodation, call (509) 963-3201, or (for the hearing impaired) TDD (509) 963-2143.