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Huge shout-out to the students who presented amazing projects at the @koobiforafs workshop! Congrats to you all 🎉

Check out CASHP community members, @chimpologistrsn and Maddy Hillegas representing us at the @ASPvoice conference in Mexico! We know your podium and poster presentations were amazing!! 🐵🎉

Last week we celebrated the successful dissertation defense of CASHP community member, Jack Richardson! We greatly enjoyed learning more about correlates of wild mountain gorilla play behavior! Congratulations to Jack on this tremendous milestone!! @GWAnthropology @gwucolumbian

Some @gwCASHP students and staff found a good spot to check out the eclipse!

Thank you to Chloe Keefe and Ben Stein for presenting in Journal Club last week. They gave a talk about enamel proteins and what they reveal about biological sex and genetic variability in Paranthropus!

A wonderful poster from PhD student Joyce Waweru presented at this years AABAs! She describes her poster as an investigation on the early hominins land use patterns by enhancing our ability to predict the location of flakes in a reduction sequence using machine learning models.

Shout out to the strong @gwCASHP representation at the 2024 Paleoanthropology Society poster session!

At #AABA2024? Check out Clara’s poster today on immunity gene protein evolution in primates! 🧬🦍🐒🦧 ⁦@gwCASHP⁩ ⁦@GWAnthropology⁩ ⁦@CMariencheck⁩

Congratulations are in order for PhD Candidate Rachel Nelson for receiving the 2024 Philip Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award! 👏👏

So proud of the @gwCASHP students who presented posters at the Paleoanthropology meeting yesterday in LA. Exciting work. Well done Nick, Kate, Joyce, and Niguss!

POSTDOC JOB OPENING 🦍🧠🔬: Seeking a Postdoctoral Scientist to join GW's Laboratory for Evolutionary Neuroscience for an NIH-funded project on "Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology in a Primate Model." Apply Now: gwu.jobs/postings/109110 Learn more about us:  cashp.columbian.gwu.edu/evolutionary-n…

Please join us February 22nd at 10am for Alexis Uluutku's dissertation defense in person or on zoom! 👏👏

Thank you so much to Dr. Susana Carvalho for kicking off our journal club this semester with her talk titled "From behavior to fossilization at the edge of of the Eastern African Rift System - The Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa."

Please join us, in person or virtually, in Sims Patton's dissertation proposal defense this Thursday, the 14th!

Major congratulations are in order for PhD candidate Abby McClain for passing her proposal defense today with no revisions!!

Please join us, in person or virtually, in Abby McClain's dissertation proposal defense this Tuesday, the 12th!

Are you an early career researcher (e.g., postdoctoral scholar, lecturer, or Assistant Professor)? Do you have a research idea that requires funding? Consider applying for a Cobb Professional Development Grant by January 15! bioanth.org/news/3777/