News from Functional Anatomy & Evolution
Read our latest announcements about department updates, honors and publications.
Congratulations to our Paleontological Society Student Research Grant recipients!
Stephanie Palmer for her proposal, "Insights into aquatic transitions through carnivoran comparative endocranial morphology." Savannah Cobb for her proposal, "Using computer vision to classify ‘honing premolars’ by sex and diet." Will...
Congratulations to Catherine J. Llera-Martin!
Catherin J. Llera-Martin successfully defended her dissertation on January 31st. Her dissertation titled “Age and Additive Genetic Effects on Cross-Sectional Morphology in Primates” estimates the heritability of bone cross-sections in two primate colonies....
Dr. Matthew J. Ravosa joins FAE as new Director
We are excited to announce that effective January 1, 2023, Dr. Matthew J. Ravosa is the new Director of the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution. Ravosa joins us from the University of Notre Dame, where he was a Professor of Biological Sciences, Aerospace and...
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."...