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Palaeobiology Lab News

Summer 2024

We've moved to the UK!

Lab PI John Rowan moved to the University of Cambridge as Assistant Professor in Human Evolution in the Department of Archaeology, and as an affiliated researcher with the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

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May 14, 2024

James and Katharine present thesis projects, Eve graduates with MA!

James Cooper and Katharine Serio presented their undergraduate thesis projects as poster presentations at UAlbany's Showcase Day in late April. On May 12th, Eve Omondi walked for graduation and received her MA after completing an excellent thesis on Lothagam's mammal fossil record. Congrats to all!

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March 26, 2024

AABA and Lazagabaster talk at UAlbany

Eve Omondi, Christianne Ormsby, and lab alum Linet Sankau gave excellent presentations of their ongoing research at the AABA 2024 meeting in Los Angeles. After the conference, Dr. Ignacio Lazagabaster flew to Albany to give a great talk about his research investigating human-environment dynamics in Egypt and the Levant!

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August 03, 2023

Eve and Linet featured by Leakey Foundation

Eve Omondi and lab alum Linet Sankau were highlighted in a Leakey Foundation article about the Baldwin Fellowship program and its important role in raising up international scholars. We are proud of you!

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August 01, 2023

Students hard at work in Nairobi

After the Lothagam field season, three lab members spent several weeks at the Nairobi National Museum working in the collections. Christianne Ormsby generated dozens of 3D surface scans of hominin and mammal fossils from the Lothagam collections for ongoing analyses. Eve Omondi worked in the archives to track down old field notes and maps from previous field work campaigns by the Harvard, Princeton, and Koobi Fora Research Project teams. Linet Sankau sampled primate and herbivore teeth for stable isotope analyses, building on her MSc thesis work.

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