MIRA

MIRA Director Dr. Mirjana Roksandic was featured on the latest release from Evolution Soup chatting all things Homo bodoensis. Check it out here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8lHMqTXloM&t=2s

Updated date and time!
Please join us for the next session of the Anthropology Speaker Series

Update: event had been postponed.
Please join us for the next instalment of the Anthropology Speaker Series featuring Dr. Tina Greenfield!

Director of MIRA Labs Dr. Mirjana Roksandic was recently interviewed by Research Manitoba as part of their 10th Anniversary profile series!

Read the profile here:
https://researchmanitoba.ca/10th-anniversary-researcher-spotlight-mirjana-roksandic/

We had an exciting day in the lab yesterday! Thank you to Dr. Jean-François Doulet, the French Embassy’s Scientific and Higher Education Attaché for visiting our labs and chatting about our current research.

Thank you to everyone for attending Dr. Mirjana Roksandic’s talk last week as part of the University of Winnipeg Anthropology Speaker Series! We had a great turnout and look forward to seeing everyone at our next event.

Please join us today at 3pm in the University Faculty Club!

The University of Winnipeg Anthropology Speaker Series will feature an exciting talk by Dr. Mirjana Roksandic on Friday November 15th.

Please join us from 3:00-5:00pm in the University Faculty Club, 4th Floor Wesley Hall. Refreshments to follow!

After a summer of working on dental CT scans, Zach and Josh tested out our new Creality 3D printer.

This summer in the lab, research assistant Zach Hoorman worked on rendering CT scans of Neanderthal teeth for 3D printing under the supervision of Josh Lindal and Dr. Mirjana Roksandic. Josh also co-hosts the Screens of the Stone Age Podcast along with Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett where they review movies about prehistoric people. Past guests from the MIRA lab include Dr. Mirjana Roksandic, Dr. Predrag Radović, and recently Zach. You can listen to SOTSA on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Youtube and Google Podcasts

This July members of the MIRA team attended the Eastern African Association of Palaeoanthropologists and Palaeomtologists (EAAPP) conference in Addis Ababa learning about all facets of current research and discussing the current ethical issues and neo-colonial aspects still present is the field.