Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, GW

Happy Holidays! We enjoyed a lovely holiday party last week to celebrate the end of the semester, filled with a gift exchange and gingerbread houses. 🤩 Hope everyone has a wonderful winter break!

Congratulations to the students who presented at the workshop last week! There were 🔥 projects and everyone did amazing work 🤩

Stop by next year to see more brilliant scholars present their cutting-edge research!

The Anthropology Department had a spook-tacular Halloween party! Happy to see some of CASHP’s own winning prizes in the pumpkin carving contest 🎃👻

Howdy, partner! 🤠 Thank you to for hosting this fantastic Wild West BBQ. Big thanks to the organizers and everyone that showed up!

Had a great time at our second annual CASHP picnic, even if the rain forced us inside!! Looking forward to the next co****le tournament!

Shout out to CASHP master’s student Hannah Furchak for presenting a poster on her thesis at yesterdays CCAS Research Showcase. We had an excellent turnout of master’s and anthropology undergraduate students both presenting and supporting! 💚

Thank you to PhD candidate Clara Mariencheck for presenting in last week’s journal club on malaria driven adaptions of MHC class I in bonobos!

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 s*x and genetic variability in Paranthropus!

A wonderful poster from PhD student Joyce Waweru presented at this years AABAs titled, “Comparative study of reduction sequences methods: Application to Oldowan Technology.”

Joyce 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.

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

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.”

Conduct interdisciplinary comparative research on great ape and human brains to investigate aging and pathology of synapses and mitochondria using electron microscopy and other methods.

📧 Apply Now: https://www.gwu.jobs/postings/109110
🌐 Learn more about us: https://cashp.columbian.gwu.edu/evolutionary-neuroscience

Thank you so much to Dr. Chris Krupenye for presenting a talk to our journal club last week titled: “The Social Minds of Humans and Other Apes.”

Thank you to the CASHP guest speaker committee and the Mind Brain Institute (MBI) for hosting Dr. Krupenye and facilitating his talk.