- Stevens leads interdisciplinary museum team to win
Innovation Strategy funding.
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Matt Borths and Nancy Stevens present at Ohio University Science
Café
- Stevens wins
Global Engagement award at Ohio International Gala.
- Stevens speaks in
Environmental Studies seminar, Ecotourism class and
Translational Biomedical Sciences courses.
- Borths and Stevens explore the
deciduous dentition of Hyainailouroidea (Hyaenodonta,
Placentalia, Mammalia).
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Paleoelectronica blog features article on hyaenodont deciduous
dentition.
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StevensLab discovery in Tanzania reveals ancient bobcat-sized
carnivore.
- Borths and Stevens announce
the first African hyaenodont from the beginning of the
Paleogene-Neogene carnivore transition from the late
Oligocene of the Rukwa Rift Basin!
- Borths and Stevens unravel
taxonomic affinities of an enigmatic meat eater, Prionogale.
- OHIO student alumnus and Rukwa Rift team publishes
the second titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the middle
Cretaceous Galula Formation, southwestern Tanzania with remarks
on African titanosaurian diversity.
- Rukwa Rift Basin team member Cassy Mtelela leads description
of
the sedimentology and paleoenvironments of a fossiliferous late
Neogene-Quaternary sedimentary succession in the Rukwa Rift
Basin, Tanzania.
- JCU postdoc H Hilbert-Wolf publishes
Application of U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology to drill
cuttings for age control in hydrocarbon exploration wells: a
case study from the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania.
- Athens High School senior Ellie Klein joins StevensLab as a
research volunteer
- Undergraduate Rosa Negash begins PACE research assistant
position in StevensLab
- Rukwa Rift Basin team conducts 16th annual field season in
southwestern Tanzania
- Rukwa Rift Basin research presentations at Society of
Vertebrate Paleontology meetings by Nancy Stevens, Patrick
O’Connor, Jacob McCartney, Matthew Borths, Sarah Widlanski, Eric
Gorscak
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Stevens coauthors species of sauropod dinosaur discovered in
Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania.
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Ohio University Paleontologists discover second new species of
titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania.
- Stevens leads interdisciplinary museum team for
Konneker Fund for Learning and Discovery award
- Matt Borths delivers
Ecolunch for OCEES
- Stevens speaks in
Environmental Studies seminar
- Matt Borths publishes paper on
hyaenodont phylogeny in PeerJ
- Stevens joins
OU University International Council
- Stevens lectures in Ecotourism and Translational
Biomedical Sciences courses
- HTC student Mike McTernan receives
PURF grant for research in Uganda
- Graduate student Daniel Mwania defends thesis proposal
- Stevens joins
OU Council for Research and Scholarly Activities
- Stevens attends PalEurAfrica workshop in Brussels
- Athens High School senior Suzy Aftabizadeh joins
StevensLab as a research volunteer
- Rukwa Rift Basin research presentations at Society of
Vertebrate Paleontology meetings by Nancy Stevens, Patrick
O’Connor, Jacob McCartney, Matthew Borths, Sarah Widlanski,
Eric Gorscak
- Advisee Haley O’Brien receives Romer Prize at 2016
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meetings
- Graduate student Sarah Widlansky (supervisor: Will
Clyde, UNH) receives Student Poster Prize at Society of
Vertebrate Paleontology meetings for Rukwa geology research
- Matt Borths participates in a Reddit Ask Me Anything at
the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meetings
- Graduate student Eric Gorscak (supervisor: Patrick
O’Connor, OU) successfully defends PhD describing Rukwa
dinosaurs
- Nancy Stevens, Matt Borths, and Karie Whitman engage
middle schoolers at Liceo de Monterrey, a girls’ school in
Nuevo León, Mexico to explore how fossils are found,
prepared, and seek clues on how the modern world evolved
- Stevens leads Ohio University MOU with National Museums
of Kenya
- Stevens receives
Ohio University Presidential Research Scholar award
- Graduate student Karie Whitman returns from field
research in Madagascar
- Undergraduate student Kevin Brock resumes as a PACE
research assistant in StevensLab
- Undergraduate student Sidney Travis joins StevensLab as
a PACE research assistant
- Undergraduate Jessica Pierowski resumes as a work study
research assistant in StevensLab
- Undergraduate Bailey Sanders joins StevensLab as a work
study research assistant
- Undergraduate Rosa Negash begins grant-funded research
assistant position in StevensLab
- Graduate student Ranjeev Epa (supervisor: Alycia Stigall,
OU) presents Rukwa gastropod research at Geological Society
of America meetings
- Postdoc Hannah Hilbert-Wolf (James Cook University)
presents Rukwa geology research at Geological Society of
America meetings
- Stevens joins Kennedy Museum Advisory Board
- StevensLab attends Duke Lemur Center 50th anniversary
symposium
- Secretary of GERP and Disney Conservation Award winner
Jonah Ratsimbazafy visits the lab
- StevensLab hosts Frontiers In Science lecturer Professor
Nina Jablonski
- Ohio University signs MOU with Conservation Through
Public Health, Uganda
- Wren Edwards joins StevensLab as PhD student
- Graduate student Karie Whitman awarded OCEES fellowship
for Fall Semester of 2016
- Graduate student Daniel Mwania returns from field
research in Kenya
- Graduate student Eileen Wyza returns from field research
in Madagascar
- HTC student Mike McTernan returns from field research in
Uganda
- Rukwa team receives 3-year National Science Foundation
grant to expand exploration of Rukwa Rift Basin
- Graduate student Cassy Mtelela (supervisor: Eric
Roberts, JCU) finishes PhD on Rukwa Lake Beds geology
- Graduate student Sifa Ngasala (supervisor: Mike
Gottfried, MSU) finishes PhD on Rukwa lungfishes
- Matt Borths's paleontology podcast Past Time releases
episode on the Greenland Shark, the world's oldest
vertebrate animal
- Matt Borths's paleontology podcast Past Time releases an
episode on a fossilized food chain
- StevensLab PhD Haley O’Brien accepts Assistant Professor
in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the medical
school at Oklahoma State University
- Rukwa Rift Basin Project begins 15th field season in
southwestern Tanzania
- Stevens awarded LSB Leakey Foundation grant for Rukwa
field work
- Graduate students Karie Whitman and Eileen Wyza begin
field research in Madagascar
- HTC student Mike McTernan begins field research in
Uganda
- Graduate student Daniel Mwania begins field research in
West Turkana, Kenya
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StevensLab researchers co-announce discover oldest evidence
of 'farming'.
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Termites figured out farming 25 million years before people
did.
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The world’s oldest farmers were insects.
- Haley O’Brien successfully defends PhD entitled
“Macroevolutionary Impact of Selective Brain Cooling on the
Mammalian Order Artiodactyla”
- Matt Borths's paleontology podcast Past Time releases
episode on competing crocodiles in dinosaur-dominated
ancient Spain
- National Geographic Big Cats Initiative Director Luke
Dollar visits the lab
- Matt Borths receives grant from the Explorer’s Club to
conduct research on Paleogene predators of eastern Africa.
- Matt Borths and graduate student Karie Whitman meet via
Skype with middle school students at Liceo de Monterrey, a
women's school in Nuevo León, Mexico.
- Matt Borths and graduate student Catherine Early meet
via Skype with seventh graders at Troy Middle School in
Plainsfield, IL to answer questions after the students
complete their fossils and rocks unit in science class.
- Graduate students Karie Whitman and Eileen Wyza
successfully defend thesis proposals
- Matt Borths's paleontology podcast Past Time releases
episode on Ohio University's own Pat O'Connor and Eric
Gorscak expedition to Antarctica to hunt for fossils
- Matt Borths's paleontology podcast Past Time releases
episode on Stony Brook University researcher Eugenia Gold's
research on dodo brains
- Matthew Borths is awarded NSF Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship in Biology
- Senior thesis research by Will Stevens on Rukwa fishes
published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
- Graduate student Haley O’Brien publishes a paper on
enigmatic taxon Rusingoryx in Current Biology
- Graduate student Haley O’Brien publishes a detailed
examination of ontogenetic changes in giraffe cranial
vasculature in PeerJ.
- Matt Borths's paleontology podcast Past Time releases
episode on the evolution of dinosaur chewing, a project led
by Ali Nabavizadeh, a professor at Rowan University
- Matt Borths meets with five classes of seventh and
eighth graders at Kennedy Middle School in Charlotte, NC via
Skype to share some of the Stevens Lab fossils with them and
answer questions about what the fossil record tells us about
the modern world
- Matthew Borths co-produces Ted-Ed project entitled “When
will the next mass extinction occur?”
- Matthew Borths receives Fellowship of Graduate Student
Travel Award from the Society for Integrative Biology
- Graduate student Haley O’Brien publishes morphology
paper on mouse deer cranial vasculature in PeerJ
- MSES student Eileen Wyza joins StevensLab
- Matt Borths's paleontology podcast Past Time releases
episode right after he defended his dissertation about the
process of doing research, earning a doctoral degree, and
why it’s worth it.
- Graduate student Haley O’Brien publishes a carotid rete
hemodynamics paper in Theoretical Biology
- Rosa Negash (Athens High School senior) joins StevensLab
as research volunteer
- Matt Borths's paleontology podcast Past Time releases
episode on a giant meat eater from ancient Europe called
Kerberos
- Matt Borths begins role as Laboratory Manager in
StevensLab
- Graduate student Karie Whitman joins StevensLab as
full-time MSES student
- Graduate student Daniel Mwania joins StevensLab as first
year MSES student
- David Blackburn and colleagues publish paper on Rukwa
frogs in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
- "Disasters in Field Research" text published by Ice,
Dafour and Stevens
- Stevens joinst REACHE research team at
National Museums of Kenya.
- Sabin Conservation Award winner Le Khat Quyet visits the
lab.