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 Fossils”, which was funded by the Leakey Foundation. Zana is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences at the USC Keck School of Medicine.