Awards

Fulbright Award to Graduating Senior, Matthew Borths

The Department of Anthropology congratulates Matthew Borths, a graduating senior who double-majored in Anthropological Sciences and Geological Science, for his Fulbright Award for the 2008/2009 academic year. He will be spending the next year in Germany doing research at the University of Bonn. Matthew will work with Dr. Thomas Martin, a mammalian paleontologist, studying Mesozoic mammalian evolution, focusing on the role of early mammals in Jurassic and Cretaceous ecosystems. In many ways his research in Germany will be an extension of his undergraduate research, advised by OSU professor John Hunter, on mammalian diversity during the end-Cretaceous mass-extinction (the one that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago). After a year in Germany, Matt is headed to the Department of Anatomical Sciences at SUNY-Stony Brook to work with David Krause and Erik Seiffert on mammal evolution in Africa.

Clark Spencer Larsen receives the American Association of Physical Anthropologists' (AAPA) Gabriel W. Lasker Distinguished Service Award

Clark Spencer Larsen, chair and professor of the Department of Anthropology, is the recipient of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists' (AAPA) Gabriel W. Lasker Distinguished Service Award for outstanding service to the field of anthropology and to the AAPA.