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The Teaford nutcracker and Sylvester shuffle in the media!

Dr. Mark Teaford and collegues recieved attention from the media in response to recent work on the dental microwear and dietary preferences of Paranthropus boisei.

Several online news agencies including Science Daily reported on Dr. Adam Sylvester's recent publication in American Journal of Physical Anthropology, which examines the energetic costs related to the emergence of hominid bipedality.

Mike Habib was interviewed for a new series "Evolve" on The History Channel. He was encouraged to speak at length about flight mechanics. Keep an eye out for the episode about the evolution of wings and flight!

Posted: 30 July 2008

Congratulations Maddy and Evan!

Evan Garofalo and Madeleine Chollet have passed their oral qualifying exams. After a number of months of furious studying, they can now focus on on their disseration research... and anatomy.

Posted: 30 May 2008

Kudos in Germany!

Dr. Ken Rose was named a Corresponding Member of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft at its annual meeting in Freiberg, Germany, in September. Congratulations!

Mike Habib just returned from Munich, Germany where he gave a platform presentation entitled "Structural characteristics of the humerus of Bennettazhia oregonensis and their implications for specimen diagnosis and azhdarchoid biomechanics" at the 2007 Flugsaurier Meeting, a pterosaur meeting held in honor of Peter Wellnhofer. Unfortunately, Mike also had an unlucky encounter with a Diatryma and lost his head.

Posted: 30 September 2007

Congratulations to Benjamin Auerbach and Jason Organ on their doctorates!

Belated congratulations to Drs. Benjamin Auerbach and Jason Organ for successfully defending their dissertations!
Dr. Auerbach defended a record three volume dissertation entitled "Skeletal variation in the New World during the Holocene: effects of climate and subsistence across geography and time". He has taken up the position of Visiting Scholar at the Center for Archaeological Investigations at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL.

Dr. Organ defended his dissertation "The functional anatomy of prehensile and nonprehensile tails of the Platyrrhini (Primates) and Procyonidae (Carnivora)" and traveled very far to join the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as the Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with Dr. Rebecca German .

Posted: 15 September 2007

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