Natalie Robinson presents poster at AABA meeting
Natalie Robinson currently a PhD student in Anthropology at Rutger’s University, presented a poster at the AABA meeting in Baltimore on “Environmental Education Expeditions Increase Student Knowledge and Positive Attitudes Toward Orangutan Conservation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia”.
Caitlin O’Connel presents paper on “Variation in Orangutan Density Across Locally Managed Village Forests”
Caitlin O’Connel, PhD alum and Deputy Director of the Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program presented a paper on “Variation in Orangutan Density Across Locally Managed Village Forests” highlighting her work that helps empower local people while protecting wild orangutans.
Faye Harwell presents at the AABA meeting
Faye Harwell, PhD alum and current Visiting Assistant Professor at BU presented a talk at the AABA meeting on “Sex Differences in Estimated Lean Body Mass of Captive and Wild Orangutans” which highlights some of her findings on orangutan muscle mass, part of her dissertation work.
Feyza Burak-Aadli presents at Northwestern University
Feyza Burak-Aadli presented “The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey” at Northwestern University in March hosted by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA).
Reese Hotten-Sommers wins the American Association of Anthropological Genomics Best Undergraduate Presentation award at the AABA
Reese Hotten-Sommers won the American Association of Anthropological Genomics Best Undergraduate Presentation award at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists annual meeting in Baltimore.
Amy Scott presents at the AABA meeting
Amy Scott, current post-doc and BU alum, presented a poster at the AABA meeting in Baltimore on “Historic urine samples as a source of host genomic DNA from wild primates” that showed how she has been able to extract DNA from decades old orangutan urine samples.
Melissa Zarate wins the “Outstanding presentation award for exemplary student research” for her presentation at the AABA
Melissa Zarate won the “Outstanding presentation award for exemplary student research” for her presentation “A new reference mitochondrial genome for the yellow-tailed woolly monkey and implications for altitude adaptation” at the American Association of Biological Anthropology meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. Read a blog post about the award and Melissa’s research here.
Samantha Vee presents at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists
Samantha Vee presented a poster entitled “Social network analysis in wild Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii): a comparison of network centrality between age-sex classes” at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists conference in Baltimore, Maryland.
Brooke Rothamer presents at the Human Biology Association and the Society for Research in Child Development’s conferences
Brooke Rothamer presented a poster at the Human Biology Association and the Society for Research in Child Development’s conferences. She gave a talk at the meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) entitled, “Age and sex patterns in the size and kin-makeup of children’s playmate networks.”
PhD Student Jonathan Norris hosts book talk with Marwan Kaabour on his new edited book: The Queer Arab Glossary
PhD candidate Johnathan Norris hosts a book talk on October 8 with Marwan Kaabour on his new edited book: The Queer Arab Glossary at the Geddes Center. Kaabour’s book compiles key Arabic words on queer life, broken into specific sections based on Arabic dialects, vignettes and stories written by Arab queer people throughout the Middle […]