Biological Anthropologist, Human Biologist, Associate Professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington. Living on the Atlantic while researching the Pacific
Wilmington NC
Joined March 2016
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Could study abroad or field school be good for your health? Yes! Even w/o gyms students took more steps & burned more calories during fieldwork than traditional classrooms. @humanbiohowells @UNCWilmington @uncw_anthro @UNCWStudyAbroad @ECUAbroad #fieldwork
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New article out from collaboration between the @BaylorAnthro Muehlenbein Lab, @Chris_Ly, and others! Have a tattoo? Wonder if it can be physiologically advantageous? Check this out. Interesting preliminary work! #tattoos #physiology #biocultural #anthropology
New article alert! "Psychoneuroimmunology & Tattooing" out now in Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology! "The psychological and physical experience of being tattooed may contribute to physiological adaptations that prepare the skin for other injury." link.springer.com/article/10…
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Our article on dual burden of Zika & chronic disease is out & open access in "Biology of the Pacific" special issues of Annals of Human Biology! w/ Michaela Howells & Lesley Jo Weaver tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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#UNCW Prof. Michaela Howells is featured in this @nbcnews report on #Zika prevention efforts in American Samoa. nbcnews.to/2fnhm91
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Cultural factors complicate #Zika prevention in American Samoa nbcnews.to/2fnhm91 my story on @nbcnews covering @humanbiohowells
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All the cool kids go to the business meeting. Such as the amazing @HumanBioHowells
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Need more community participatory research models in biocultural research ala Lance Gravlee #AAA2016 #basaaa 1/3 @HumanBioHowells – at Minneapolis, MN
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Need this in AS, increase local buy-in & train local in critical methods, prepare them for US colleges #basaaa #AAA2016 @HumanBioHowells 2/2 – at Minneapolis, MN
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Zika in Amer Samoa/biosocial inheritance model, how inequality increases risk transfer across generations #basaaa #aaa2016 @HumanBioHowells
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.@HumanBioHowells Pointed out clearly that we're talking about ecology or landscape of risk via disease @Anthrofuentes #basaaa #AAA2016 – at Minneapolis, MN
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Megan Rapinoe took a knee during the national anthem today. Here she explains why. #USWNT americansoccernow.com/articl…
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Please check out my new MS! @MatthewMGervais @HumanBioHowells @Chris_Ly @MichelleAKline @ben_trumble journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pd…
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new paper by the awesome @HumanBioHowells et al on the relationship between culture &medical care in American Samoa
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#GoTFinale teachable moment: globally, 27% of women die from bleeding during childbirth even w/ modern medicine sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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What are you doing this summer? Internship, study abroad, community service? Snap a photo and share. #UNCWSummer
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170,000 views in the last 24 hours alone! @inesvarelasilva popular article for @ConversationUK bit.ly/1OBbYqS
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Yasawan pregnancy aversions: avoiding food w/ likely toxins & substituting w/ foods w/ similar nutritional content.
