Two of our students, Laura and Maddie, were able to share their research at the Field Museum's UChicagoGRAD Research Speaks in April, a new event established this year. This single day program grants students the opportunity to discuss their research with the general...

The Alemseged Lab team recently made it over to Los Angeles, California, to attend both the 2024 Paleoanthropology Society meeting (PSM) the 93rd annual American Association of Biological Anthropologists meeting (AABA), as well as to meet up with others in the field....

This week, Science magazine published the article "Lucy's World: Was Lucy the mother of us all? Fifty years after her discovery, the 3.2-million-year-old skeleton has rivals" by Ann Gibbons. She briefly details how Zeray got involved in paleoanthropology before...

This past January, three Alemseged Lab members were able to attend the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) in Seattle, Washington. As members of a paleoanthropology lab in an organismal biology department, they know it's...

A few of our lab members were available this year to participate again with UChicago’s Integrative Biology’s committee on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) at the Chicago Food Depository. Austin and Maddie worked with others from our OBA...