Alemseged Lab News
Click a title to learn about what goes on here at our lab, at conferences, and in the field.NPR Interviews with Zeray and other ‘Lucy’ news
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...
2024 Expanding Your Horizons
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...
2024 South Side Science Festival
Several of our members participated again in UChicago's South Side Science Festival (S3F), and we teamed up with the Tsegai Lab this year, which included Zewdi (not shown), post-docs Hannah and Jeff, and new student Makoto. Like last year, we set up a timeline for...
The Guardian: 50 years on, How Lucy…
Last month, Robin McKie at The Guardian posted an article titled, "Fifty years on, how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution." In it, he summarizes the Lucy discovery by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray. Chris Stringer from the Natural...
Lucy’s 50th Anniversary Symposium
Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins (ASU IHO) recently hosted the "What was Lucy's Impact on Human Origins? Lucy 50th Anniversary Symposium." Zeray spoke in the morning session, presenting "Lucy's children and human origins." His abstract reads...