News from Functional Anatomy & Evolution

Read our latest announcements about department updates, honors and publications.

 

Cooke Lab: Antillothrix fossils making headlines!

A research team including our own Dr Siobhan Cooke says their findings about the monkeys' lives and deaths may inform efforts to conserve dwindling species.Dr Siobhan Cooke has recently been making waves for her work in the Caribbean. As part of a team that identified...

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New publications from the Bever Lab!

The Bever Lab has published two new papers on the early reptile skull. Lab members William Foster (PhD student), Paul Gensbigler (MS student), Jacob Wilson (PhD student), and Gabriel Bever (PI) led a study on the Triassic stem archosaur Mesosuchus and the deep history...

Upcoming Seminar by Dr Jianping Fu (Sep 12, 2:30 PM)

I am pleased to announce that Dr. Jianping Fu will be the distinguished seminar speaker on September 12 from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM at the Mountcastle Auditorium. His presentation, titled "Bioengineering Human Embryo and Organ Models," will explore the development of an...

FAE outreach at Maryland Science Center!

FAE outreach at Maryland Science Center!

Dr. Matthew Ravosa as well as available postdocs and graduate students organized our first-ever outreach event on Saturday, December 9th, 2023 at the Maryland Science Center. Using center collections and posters developed specifically to engage the general public and...

FAE celebrates the holidays!

FAE celebrates the holidays!

The FAE faculty, students, postdocs, and staff celebrated the 2023 holidays together on Thursday, December 14th at Hotel Revival's Topside Restaurant overlooking Mount Vernon and Baltimore city. Thanks to Revival for hosting a great party!

Congrats Dr. Zana Sims!

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",...

Welcome Dr. Matteo Fabbri!

It is our immense pleasure to announce that Dr. Matteo Fabbri will be joining the FAE faculty on July 1, 2024.  Matteo is currently a Chicago Fellows postdoc in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago.  Previously, he was a...