News from Functional Anatomy & Evolution
Read our latest announcements about department updates, honors and publications.
NSF-funded Digital Paleontology Internship for Undergraduate Students
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...
FAE is proud to present: Dr. Aneila Hogan!
We would like to offer our congratulations to Aneila who successfully defended her dissertation this week. Aneila's thesis is titled "Development and Evolution in the Olfactory System of Birds" and was completed as part of an NSF-funded project in the Bever Lab. We...
Inaugural FAE Day
On Thursday, December 14th, 2023, the center faculty, graduate students, and postdocs gathered for the first-annual FAE Day! Members of the FAE presented their current research and recent work performed prior to joining the center.
Congratulations!!
We are excited to announce that two of our postdoctoral fellows are departing for tenure-track faculty positions starting this Fall. Dr. Allison Machnicki, who has assisted in anatomy instruction to our medical and graduate students, will be joining the Biomedical...
Welcome!
It is our distinct pleasure to announce that Dr. Amy L. Balanoff will be joining the FAE faculty on July 1. Amy is currently the Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, David S. Olton Behavioral Biology Program, and Assistant Research Professor in...
Dr. Sylvester to Collaborate with Dr. Cowgill on NSF-MCA Grant at University of Missouri
Dr. Adam Sylvester has been named as a collaborator by Dr. Libby Cowgill of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri for her NSF-MCA grant, titled "Validating Patterns of Bone Functional Adaptation in Living Humans." Bone is a living tissue that...
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...
Welcome New PhD Students!
FAE is excited to welcome Bianca Neale and Elizabeth Jewlal as PhD students in the fall of 2023. Both Bianca and Elizabeth bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution, and we are thrilled to have them join our...
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....