2019 Student Presentation Award Winners!

The AAPA congratulates the 2019 Student Presentation Award winners (88th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, March 27-30, 2019)

For excellent poster and
podium presentations that are judged to best implement either traditional or
state-of-the-art anatomical methodologies in innovative anthropological
research

• The AAA-AAPA Anatomy in Anthropology poster and
  podium prizes
• Anna Ragni
  (podium) (Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural
  History) – Locomotor ontogeny and
  trabecular architecture within the hands and feet of great apes

 

• Ingrid Lundeen
  (poster) (The University of Texas at Austin) – Olfactory system anatomy in Homunculus and the ecological
  importance of olfactory cues among stem platyrrhines

 

For an excellent poster
or podium presentation – unrestricted topic

• The Juan Comas Prize
• Rachel Bell (University
  of Massachusetts Amherst) – Comparing Evolutionary
  Models of Primate Hair Color Variation
• The Earnest A. Hooton Prize (poster presentation only)
• Marianne Brasil
  (University of California, Berkeley) – Morphological
  integration and modularity in the humerus of modern humans
• The Ales Hrdlicka Prize
• Julia Alyssa
  White (University of Oxford) – From flesh to mesh:
  Bodies as maps in 3D GIS
• The Sherwood Washburn Prize
• William Aguado (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) – Effective seed dispersal of an economically important plant
  resource by western chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal

 

For an excellent poster
or podium presentation on bones or teeth

• The Mildred Trotter Prize
• Katherine
  Bishop (University of Alberta) – Isotopic perspectives
  on the shep-herd relationship at two Hellenistic (ca. 323-31 BCE)
  settlements in Thessaly, Greece

 

For an excellent poster
or podium presentation on primatology

• The Patricia Whitten Prize
• Matthew Zipple (Duke
  University) – Intergenerational
  Fitness Effects of Early Life Adversity in Baboons

 

For an excellent poster
or podium presentation on human or primate evolution

Inaugural

• The Journal of Human Evolution Prize
• Emma Finestone (CUNY
  Graduate Center) – ED-XRF study of Oldowan
  artifacts documents raw material selection and transport through time on
  the Homa Peninsula, Kenya

There are many more
excellent student poster and podium presentations than we have named awards. As
the result a number of Honorable Mention Prizes are awarded each year.

• The Honorable Mention Prizes
• Alyssa Bader (University
  of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) – Ancient oral microbiome
  of a fisher-hunter-gatherer community from the Pacific Northwest Coast

 

• Amanda
  Ellwanger (University of Texas at
  San Antonio)
  – Foraging in a landscape of fear: chacma
  baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus)
  in the anthropogenic habitats of Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, South Africa

 

• Jake Funkhouser
  (Washington University, St. Louis) – Re-evaluating
  the analysis of dominance: Investigations of dominance in captive
  chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
  and wild Tibetan macaques (Macaca
  thibetana) from a context-dependent perspective

 

• Kris Sabbi (University
  of New Mexico) – Sex differences in
  adrenal hormone production throughout development among Kanyawara
  chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes
  schweinfurthii) at Kibale National Park, Uganda