Category: Member Spotlight
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Student Spotlight: Clara Devota
This week, we are excited to feature our first-year PhD student, Clara Devota! Although Clara is only in her first year as a graduate student, she’s been part of our lab for the last four years as an undergraduate student here at MSU, and we’re all thrilled that she chose to stay in East Lansing…
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Student Spotlight: Elena Watson
This week, we are excited to feature our current fifth-year PhD student, Elena Watson! Elena is a jack-of-all-trades who has previously been the MSUFAL Lab Manager, a Research Assistant, a Teaching Assistant in human osteology, and the department Graduate Assistant. Currently, Elena is loving her job as a Teaching Assistant in the Division of Human…
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Student Spotlight: Amber Plemons
The MSUFAL is very pleased to feature PhD Candidate, Amber Plemons, for this edition of our student spotlight. Amber is currently working on her dissertation project, “The Interaction Between Genetics and Climate on Craniofacial Variation: Examining the Causative Forces of Macromorphoscopic Trait Expression”, which aims to understand the evolutionary and ecogeographical factors of human variation.…
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Student Spotlight: Kelly Kamnikar
Introducing PhD candidate, Kelly Kamnikar! Fifth year student, Kelly Kamnikar, is currently finishing her dissertation here at Michigan State University. Her dissertation research aims to estimate ancestry for Hispanic individuals to even finer levels of resolution, specifically for southeastern Mexico and Guatemala. With cranial variation being influenced by the environment, history, culture, and genetics, these…
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Student Spotlight: Mari Isa
Introducing PhD candidate Mari Isa! Mariyam ‘Mari’ Isa is in her final year here at the MSUFAL, and while we will be sad to see her leave, we are excited for her future endeavors! Mari’s research focuses on blunt force trauma in the skull and femora. She studies how bones break to better understand fracture…
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Student Spotlight: Alex Goots
Spring at Michigan State University also brings in a new decade (2020!) and a new graduate student spotlight. To start the New Year off right, we are highlighting Alex Goots! Alex is currently in her fourth year as a University Distinguished Fellow, a distinction recognizing her past academic achievement, her current research goals, and her…
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Student Spotlight: Rhian Dunn
A warm welcome to Rhian Dunn, our newest MSUFAL lab member! Rhian is currently a first year Research Assistant here at Michigan State University with a College of Social Science Dean’s Fellowship. Rhian is from California where she attended UC Santa Barbara, majoring in Biological Anthropology with a minor in Classics. After finishing her undergraduate…