Alemseged Lab News
Click a title to learn about what goes on here at our lab, at conferences, and in the field.Alemseged Lab & Dr. Mulugeta Alene
The Alemseged Lab team met for lunch and enjoyed the return of sunnier weather here in Chicago. We also welcome Dr. Mulugeta Alene, a Senior Geologist and Assistant Professor from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. "Mulu" is working with Zeray through The Neubauer...
Pope names two prominent US-based experts to Vatican science academy
Along with neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate Stanley Prusiner and theologian and secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America Emilce Cuda, Zeresenay Alemseged has been appointed by the Pope to be a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. See more...
Alemseged Lab attends 2022 AABA Conference in Denver, CO
The Alemseged Lab team attended this year's joint American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) and Paleoanthropology Society meetings held in Denver, CO. At the Paleoanthropology Society, Yared presented "Facial Ontogeny in Australopithecus afarensis:...
Membership to the International Scientific Committee of the Museum of Prehistory Anthropology
On February 11, 2022, Professor Alemseged was granted membership to the International Scientific Committee of the Museum of Prehistory Anthropology (of Monaco). The notice in part reads: Ordonnance Souveraine n° 9.086 du 11 février 2022 portant nomination des membres...
Appointment as Member of the Pontifical Academy of Science
On December 21, 2021, Prof. Zeresenay Alemseged was appointed as an Academician of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by His Holiness Francis at Vatican City and will be receiving an insignia during a Solemn Pontifical Audience at the next Plenary Session in...