Eastern Africa’s Earliest Livestock Herders Adapted to a Changing Climate
An international team of researchers has discovered remarkable dietary variation among eastern Africa’s first pastoralists — people who raised and consumed livestock and their products. Early herders living around Lake...Read More
Don’t Let Mother Earth Down: Wright Inspires People to Take Action in Earthstock Keynote
Patricia Wright arrived in Madagascar nearly four decades ago in search of a lemur thought to be extinct. She found it, along with the realization that protecting it and other...Read More
Leveling Up Museum Learning: Nick Martinez ’11 Helps Curate Long Island’s Newest Video Game Exhibit
As a premed freshman with a penchant for video games, Nick Martinez ’11 never imagined he’d help curate his first exhibition on gaming at the Long Island Museum — just...Read More
New Fossil of an Ancient Human Relative Shows It Had Strong Grip, Human-Like Dexterity
For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its extremely powerful jaws and massive teeth, could make and use stone tools....Read More
SBU Doctoral Student Wins Leakey Grant to Study Kenya’s Coastal Primates
A Stony Brook University doctoral student was awarded a significant grant from the Leakey Foundation to study how primates have adapted to living in coastal Kenya. Alex Chege, a PhD candidate in...Read More
Eyes in the Dark: Amanda Rowe’s Research Earns Prestigious Recognition
Amanda Rowe, a recent PhD graduate from Stony Brook University’s Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences (IDPAS), has been honored as a finalist for the Chancellor’s Distinguished Dissertation Award. Reflecting...Read More
