Class of 2016 3rd year Internship & Thesis Presentations

It’s the end of the quarter and today, the class of 2016 returns to our conservation training labs at the Getty Villa to give their final presentations as graduate students in our program.  They will be presenting on their 3rd year internships, as well as discussing the work they did for their MA thesis projects.  The day will end with a  small reception to celebrate the completion of their conservation degree and graduation!

A list of their 3rd year internship placements can be found on this previous post.   Here is a list of the M.A. thesis research they will also be sharing with us:

• Colette Badmagharian – Piecing together the History of an 18th-century printed Armenian Prayer Scroll: The Study of Cultural Context and Manufacturing Techniques
• Betsy Burr – Dye analysis of archaeological Peruvian textiles using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)
• Lesley Day – A Study of the Moiré Pattern of Tortoiseshell: Morphology of the Pattern, Techniques for Documentation, and Alterations of the Pattern and Shell by Accelerated Light Aging 
• Tom McClintock – Documentation and Technical Study of Torqua  Cave
• William Shelley – Biocorrosion of Archaeological Glass
• Heather White – An Analysis of Unidentified Dark Materials Between Inlaid Motifs on Andean Wooden Qeros

Congratulations to the class of 2016 and good luck on your presentations today!

Class of 2016 Summer & 3rd Year Internships

The quarter is coming to an end and students are busy finishing up treatments and thesis projects, as well as writing papers and studying for finals. On top of all that, they’re busy getting ready to leave LA for their summer and 3rd year internships. Below is a list of all the great places they’ll be working at in the upcoming year.

• Betsy Burr-Alaska State Museum and Arizona State Museum
• Lesley Day-Hibulb Cultural Center and American Museum of Natural History
• Colette Khanaferov-Shangri La Center for Islamic Arts and Cultures and Benaki Museum
• Tom McClintock-Stepwise Heritage and Tourism, Angkor Wat, and Conservation d’Angkor,
• William Shelley-Gordion Archaeological Project and Laboratory of Archaeometry, Univ. of Peloponnese
• Heather White-Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and The British Museum, Ceramics, Glass and Metals Section

We wish them good luck on their internships and safe travels!

Class of 2014’s Summer/3rd Year Placements

It’s finals week and the students are getting ready to head off (or some have already left) for their summer internships and 3rd year placements.  Here’s a list of all the exciting places they’ll be working at:

• Brittany Dolph-Ayn Gharandal Archaeological Project and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
• Ayesha Fuentes-Department of Cultural Properties, Bhutan
• Geneva Griswold-Herculaneum Project (GCI) and the Walters Art Museum
• Caitlin Mahony-Hibulb Cultural Center and Natural History Preserve and the American Museum of Natural History
• Casey Mallinckrodt-Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and Museums of New Mexico
• Madeleine Neiman-Anchorage Museum, Alaska State Museum,  and the Arizona State Museum
• Alexis North-Michael C. Carlos Museum and the Penn Museum
• Carinne Tzadik-Israel Antiquities Authority and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

We wish them lots of success during their internship year and will see everyone again in Spring 2014!

UCLA/Getty Program 3rd Year Placements-Class of 2010

The following are the 3rd year internship placements for the class of 2010:

• Siska Genbrugge – Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA); Museu Nacional de Arqueologia (Lisbon, Portugal); Luxor Temple, Epigraphic Survey, University of Chicago (Luxor, Egypt); Organics Conservation Laboratory, British Museum (London, UK)
• Lauren Horelick – Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (Los Angeles, CA); Alaska State Museum (Juneau, AK); American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY)
• Jiafang Liang – Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum (China); Nelson Atkins Museum (Kansas City, MO)
• Linda Lin – Agora Excavations, American School of Classical Studies (Athens, Greece); Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA)
• Suzanne Morris – Santa Teresa Monastery Museum (Arequipa, Peru); UCLA/RUG Fayum Project (Fayum, Egypt); Aneta Zebala Conservation Studio (Los Angeles, CA)