Congratulations to this year’s Student Presentation Awards winners!
The Journal of Human Evolution Prize – For an excellent poster or podium presentation on human or primate evolution Elizabeth Tapanes, George Washington University (elizabeth.tapanes@gmail.com)- Ecology and opsin variation drives the evolution of hair phenotypes across Indriidae lemurs – implications for human evolution
The AAA-AAPA Anatomy in Anthropology podium prize – For excellent presentations that are judged to best implement either traditional or state-of-the-art anatomical methodologies in innovative anthropological research (subject to co-funding by the American Association for Anatomy)
Alexa Kelly, University of North Texas Health Science Center (alexakelly@my.unthsc.edu)- Energetic Demands and Sexual Dimorphism in Inuit Nasal Morphology
The Mildred Trotter Prize – For an excellent poster or podium presentation on bones or teeth
Elizabeth Cho, University of Missouri – The influence of climate and population structure on East Asian skeletal morphology (ecomdd@mail.missouri.edu)
The Patricia Whitten Prize – For an excellent poster or podium presentation on primatology
Arielle Fogel, Duke University ( afogel29@gmail.com)- Mapping putative genetic barriers to gene flow in hybrid baboons
The American Association of Physical Anthropologists Awards for Outstanding Student Presentations (Four in total)
- Alex DeCasien, New York University and the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (alex.decasien@nyu.edu)- Patterns of sex-biased gene expression in rhesus macaque brains are similar to those observed in human brains
- Colton Unger, University of Calgary, Canada (cmunger@ucalgary.ca)- Why the long face? A study of cranial shape change in mice artificially selected for longer limbs
- Aleksey Maro, University of California, Berkeley ( alekseymaro@berkeley.edu )- Dietary ethanol in the main food (Ficus mucuso) of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in a tropical rain forest
- Jordan Anderson, Duke University (jordan.a.anderson@duke.edu)- Early life adversity predicts DNA methylation levels in wild adult baboons
The American Association of Physical Anthropologists Honorable Mention for Student Presentations (three in total)
- Faye McGechie, University of Missouri ( frm7w6@mail.missouri.edu)- 3D Functional Anatomy of Nuchal Musculature in Primates
- Leslie Quade, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, and Durkham University, UK (leslie.quade@durham.ac.uk)- Stressed to the tooth? A pilot study of cortisol in archaeological tooth structures
- L. Creighton Avery, McMaster University (averylc@mcmaster.ca)- Investigating Social Age Changes in the Roman Empire through Dietary Stable Isotopes