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2024 News

Lesciotto with NIJ Logo
 
September 26, 2024

Dr. Kate Lesciotto received a research grant from the National Institute of Justice (15PNIJ-24-GG-03840-NIJB) to support her project focused on improving estimates of biological profile parameters in forensic investigations: “MOSAIC: Unifying Methods of Sex, Stature, Affinity, & Age for Identification through Computational Standardization.”

     
Ward with NSF logo
 
August 9, 2024

PhD candidate Lyndee Ward received a research grant from the National Science Foundation (BCS Biological Anthropology #2419511) in support of her Dissertation project: “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Nasal morphological responses to thermal and exertional conditions.”

     
Cook with Skull  
July 1, 2024

Dr. Rebecca Cook joined the Center for Anatomical Sciences as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Cook’s research focuses on the biomechanics and functional morphology of the human pelvis from evolutionary and clinical perspectives.

     
Ward with Leakey logo  
June 10, 2024

PhD candidate Lyndee Ward received a research grant from the Leakey Foundation in support of her Dissertation project: “Climate and human nasal evolution: Experimentally investigating skeletal and soft-tissue influences on nasal airflow dynamics in living humans”

     
2024 AAA award winners  
March 25, 2024

PhD student Courtney Miller and former student Tooba Husain (MS 2022) won student presentation awards at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Anatomy (AAA) in Toronto, Canada.

  • Courtney Miller – Langman Graduate Student Platform Award
  • Tooba Husain – Early Career Anatomist Publication Award
     
AABA 2024 award winners  
March 23, 2024

PhD students Lyndee Ward and Baonhu Tran won student presentation awards at the 93nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) in Los Angeles, CA.

  • Lyndee Ward – AABA Outstanding Student Presentation Award
  • Baonhu Tran – AABA-AAA “Anatomy in Anthropology” Student Presentation Award

 

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