As part of a collaborative NSF-funded collaborative research grant, Dr. Siobhan Cooke is recruiting two undergraduate students to conduct research in her lab during May and June of 2024. The project focuses on niche-differentiation and extinction of the endemic...
Please join us in congratulating Zana Sims on her successful dissertation defense on Thursday, December 21st, 2023! Zana presented her PhD thesis “Cervical Root Morphology and Diet in Extant Catarrhines: Implications for Dietary Reconstruction in Miocene...
Siobhán Cooke was promoted to Associate Professor of Functional Anatomy and Evolution, effective October 1, 2022. A full-time faculty member in the Center, Dr. Cooke earned her PhD in Anthropology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her...
Help us congratulate Zana Sims! Zana Sims was awarded a grant from The Leakey Foundation for her dissertation project, “Examining phylogenetic and dietary signals using cervical root cross sections in extant catarrhines.” Zana’s work employs a variety of methods...
FAE students Catherine J. Llera Martín and Zana R. Sims were awarded the AAA-AABA Anatomy in Anthropology Prize for their independent project entitled “Using weighted spherical harmonics to detect functional locomotor signals at the distal femoral...
News from Functional Anatomy & Evolution Read our latest announcements about department updates, honors and publications. Dr. Siobhan Cooke Directs Human Anatomy Course Dr. Siobhán Cooke has been named the course director for the seven-week Human Anatomy...
