Zeray has been appointed Chair of the Sub-Saharan Africa Faculty Working Group here at UChicago. As stated on their website, "The Working Group for Sub-Saharan Africa has been formed as a part of the University of Chicago’s expanding commitment to academic engagement...

The 94th annual American Association of Biological Anthropologists meeting (AABA) was held in Baltimore, Maryland this year. As usual, our team enjoyed learning of new research as well as seeing others in the field and reconnecting with past lab members. Zeray...

The 9th biennial Eastern African Association of Paleoanthropology and Paleontology (EAAPP) conference, "Celebrating the Golden Anniversary of Lucy", was held earlier this summer in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the program can be found here. Zeray, Yared, and Maddie were in...

Recently, Zeray was interviewed alongside Donald Johanson, for NPR's Science Friday. He also interviewed with NPR's All Things Considered. As this year celebrates the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Lucy, a well-known and well preserved Australopithecus...

Earlier this year, our team once again ran a mock dig through Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) Chicago titled "Can You Dig It? Fossil Finding 101", this time with help from postdoc Jeff from the Tsegai Lab. The students and post-docs worked extra hard this year to...