As the academic year comes to a close, we are excited to celebrate several accomplishments and milestones achieved by members of our lab/research group over the past year.

Tuğçe Yalçın, our lab member and a PhD candidate in the Anthropology Department, has been selected for a PhD Fellowship at ANAMED (Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations) to pursue her dissertation project, “Tracing Hoof Marks: Deer Hunting Strategies and Practices in Bronze

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One of our doctoral students, Sarieh Amiribeirami, has completed the oral component of the comprehensive exam. Following this milestone, Sarieh will now proceed to the next stage of her research: Dissertation Prospectus Defense. 

Tuğçe Yalçın, a PhD candidate from the University of Georgia and a member of the Quaternary Isotope Paleoecology Lab, has been awarded the "Janis Steingruber Award" and "Outstanding Teaching Award from the CTL."