Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology Lab

News:

  • April 2024: Gabrielle Roman (junior, Environmental Studies) received a Summer Environmental Fellowship and Yale College Dean’s Research Fellowship in the Sciences for her research on Molecular Phylogeny of Treeshrews (Mammalia, Scandentia)
  • May 2023: Alice Zhang (senior, Anthropology) was awarded the Peter and Marion Schwartz Family Foundation Prize in Biological Anthropology and a Greg Yamanaka Senior Essay Prize for her essay Functional Morphology of the Primate Hip and Knee in Locomotor Behavior: A Geometric Morphometric Analysis
  • March 2023: Gabrielle Roman (sophomore, Environmental Studies) received a Yale Peabody Museum/Smithsonian Institution Joint Summer Internship to study Species Boundaries among Nicobar Treeshrews (Scandentia, Tupaiidae) from Southeast Asia
  • December 2022: Spencer Irvine (Anthropology) received a Leakey Foundation Grant for his research on the importance of leaping to primate origins
  • November 2022: Juman et al. published in Scientific Reports
  • May 2022: Kyra Gee (senior, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) was awarded the William R. Belknap Prize
  • February 2022: Maya Juman (2020, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) received a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to attend graduate school at the University of Cambridge
  • June 2021: Maya Juman’s (2020, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) senior essay was published in the Journal of Mammalogy
  • April 2021: Kyra Gee (junior, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) received a Summer Environmental Fellowship for her research on Postcranial Skeletal Variation in Arboreal and Terrestrial Rats (Rodentia: Muridae: Rattus)
  • April 2021: Maya Juman (2020, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) received a Fulbright Research Fellowship to study deforestation in Malaysia
  • November 2020: Weaver et al. published in Nature Ecology & Evoluton
  • April 2020: Kara Weiss‘ (2019, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) senior essay was published in the Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History
  • March 2020: Ananth Miller-Murthy (junior, Mathematics) received an American Society of Mammalogists Undergraduate Student Honorarium to present his project on Taxonomic Boundaries of the Lesser Treeshrew (Tupaia minor) as Revealed by Manus Proportions
  • March 2020: Evan Parker (sophomore, Environmental Studies) received a Yale Peabody Museum/Smithsonian Institution Joint Summer Internship to study Species Boundaries among Indomalayan Pencil-Tailed Tree Mice (Rodentia, Muridae) from Southeast Asia

 

  • June 2019: Maya Juman (senior, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) presented her summer internship project at the annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in Washington, DC

 

 

  • April 2019: Ananth Miller-Murthy (sophomore, Mathematics) received a Yale Peabody Museum/Smithsonian Institution Joint Summer Internship to study Species Boundaries among Lesser Treeshrews from Southeast Asia
  • March 2019: Maya Juman (junior, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) received a Summer Environmental Fellowship, Tetelman Fellowship for International Research in the Sciences, and Yale College Dean’s Research Fellowship in the Sciences for her research on Skeletal Variation and Taxonomic Boundaries in Large Treeshrews (Mammalia, Scandentia)
  • March 2019: Maya Juman (junior, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) received an American Society of Mammalogists Undergraduate Student Honorarium to present her project on Skeletal Variation among Island Populations of Large Treeshrews (Scandentia, Tupaiidae)
  • June 2018: Amanda Leiss (Anthropology) received a Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research for her project on paleoenvironmental reconstruction at Gona, Ethiopia between ~3-1 Ma
  • May 2018: Katharine Walls (senior, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) was awarded the William R. Belknap Prize, as well as Honorable Mention for the Greg Yamanaka Senior Essay Prize for her essay A Review of the Pongo Skeletal Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
  • April 2018: Amanda Leiss (Anthropology) received a Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant for her research on paleoenvironmental reconstruction at Gona, Ethiopia between ~3-1 Ma
  • April 2018: Kara Weiss (junior, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) received a Yale College Dean’s Research Fellowship in the Sciences for her research on Functional Skeletal Morphology of the Pencil-Tailed Tree Mouse
  • April 2018: Maya Juman (sophomore, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) received a Yale Peabody Museum/Smithsonian Institution Joint Summer Internship to study Species Boundaries among Large Treeshrews from Southeast Asia
  • December 2017: Amanda Leiss (Anthropology) received a Leakey Foundation Grant for her research on paleoenvironmental reconstruction at Gona, Ethiopia between ~3-1 Ma
  • December 2017: Katharine Walls (senior, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) received a Silliman College Mellon Senior Research Grant for her research on A Review of the Pongo Skeletal Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
  • May 2017: Ryan McRae (senior, Anthropology) was awarded the Greg Yamanaka Senior Essay Prize and the Peter and Marion Schwartz Family Foundation Prize in Biological Anthropology for his essay Growth, Trauma, and Death: a Forensic Analysis of Gorilla Skeletal Remains in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

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