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Great news coming in from Dr. Pavel Tarasov below: Mareike Schmidt, BHAP PhD student, successfully defended her Thesis and obtained her Doctoral Degree on July 17 at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. All five commission members were fascinated by the quality of her results and the oral presentation and evaluated her work with the designation "magna cum laude". Her subject of study was the use of diatoms to investigate the history of Lake Kushu, Rebun. She was supervised by Dr. Pavel [...]

Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Osipov, recent BHAP PhD student, on his new position as Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California Davis, in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery! Start Date: July, 2018 for the start, end date TBD as it is a year to year contract. Job Title: Postdoctoral Scholar Place of Employment: UC Davis, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Duties: 3D and CT imaging, mechanical testing, histology, and movement analysis to study mechanisms of systemic bone loss following fracture in mice. [...]

Congratulations to Benjamin Osipov, BHAP graduate student at University of Alberta, Department of Anthropology, for successfully defending his PhD dissertation on March 13th! Title: "The Ontogeny of Postcranial Robusticity and Diaphyseal Shape in Middle Holocene Cis-Baikal Hunter- Gatherer Populations" Ben's supervisor was Dr. Lesley Harrington, his committee members were Dr. Sandra Garvie-Lok, Dr. Robert Losey, Dr. Andrzej Weber and Dr. Mark Nuttall (chair). Abstract: Prior study of Middle Holocene (~7,500- 3,700 years cal BP) Cis-Baikal hunter-gatherers has documented considerable chronological [...]