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Waldbaum Scholarship Sends Students to the Field

Established in 2007 in honor of AIA past president Jane Waldbaum, the Jane C. Waldbaum Archaeological Field School Scholarship has enabled dozens of undergraduate and first-year graduate students to get their first taste of archaeological field experience. Field schools are the training grounds for future archaeologists, where students conduct hands-on archaeology in the field and in labs.

Over the past 17 years, 155 Waldbaum scholars have traveled to sites in more than 30 countries, including the

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