News from Functional Anatomy & Evolution
Read our latest announcements about department updates, honors and publications.

Congratulations Dr. Deanna M. Goldstein!
Huge congratulations to Dr. Deanna M. Goldstein for completing her PhD and graduating on May 25th, 2022! Dr. Goldstein was hooded by FAE Graduate Program Director and advisor, Dr. Adam Sylvester. Dr. Goldstein is currently working as a Research Instructor in the...
FAE Seminar Series presents: Dr. Nicolas Charon
Phd Candidate Zana Sims awarded 2022 Leakey Foundation Grant!
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 to...
FAE Seminar Series presents: Annelis Gabriela Rivera-Del Rio
Shout-out to Catherine J. Llera Martín for her recently published article!
Catherine J. Llera Martín from the Sylvester Lab recently published a morphometric analysis of Euprimate tarsals from Gujarat, India with Dr. Kenneth D. Rose. Congratulations Cat! Check it out: A morphometric analysis of early Eocene Euprimate tarsals from Gujarat,...
Huge congrats to MSAE ’22 student Song Park for her new position!
Join us in congratulating Song Park (2022 Master's of Science in Anatomy Education student) who has accepted an anatomy instructor position at Cleveland University Kansas City! She will be anatomy faculty at the chiropractic college division, teaching head and neck...
Congratulations to Catherine J. Llera Martin & Zana R. Sims: 2022 AAA-AABA Anatomy in Anthropology Prize Winners!
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 articulation."...
FAE Seminar Series presents: Don Cerio, PhD
Trade-offs and constraints in visual system evolution: multimodal evidence from diapsid reptiles
Bever lab student publishes first paper!
William Foster from Bever lab has published his first paper! Based on part of his master's thesis, Foster et al describe the cranial anatomy of the Chinese tyrannosaurid dinosaur Qianzhousaurus sinensis. Check out the full article here: "The cranial anatomy of the...