NORSEC RESULTS 2000-01

• OVER $600,000 IN EXTERNAL NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION FUNDING IN GRANTS TO Sophia Perdikaris, Gerald Sider, Tom McGovern
  
• SPONSORED INTERNATIONAL VIKINGS AT CUNY SYMPOSIUM, RECEPTIONS AND JOINT SEMINARS WITH AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION DEC 3-10^th 2000
  
• SPONSORED SUCCESSFUL INTERNATIONAL FIELD SCHOOL IN NORTHEN ICELAND JULY-AUG 2000, EXPANSION PLANNED SUMMER 2001 IN COOPERATION WITH ARCH INST ICELAND, U OSLO, U EDINBURGH, U STIRLING, U ARCTIC.
  
• CO-SPONSORED (WITH ASSOC. ENVIR. ARCH.) 2001 NABO GENERAL MEETING, U GLASGOW MARCH 28-30 2001
  
• CO-SPONSORED VIKING VOYAGERS (WITH SMITHSONIAN), WINNER OF 2001 SOC. AM. ARCH. BEST ARCHAEOLOGY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD.
  
• GRANT AWARDS TO NORSEC STUDENTS FROM AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN SOCIETY, NORDIC COUNCIL, STEFANSON ARCTIC CENTER.
  
• COLLABORATION WITH DEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, U STIRLING IN REAL TIME DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE IN GEOARCHAEOLOGY, SPRING SEMESTER 2001. PLANNED JOINT DISTANCE LEARNING COURSES WITH VIKING & MEDIEVAL STUDIES CENTER, U OSLO FOR FALL 2001.