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...

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...

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...

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...

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an academic research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. It is a professional and highly engaging international program. In just three short minutes (180 seconds!) and with a single...