Laughton

Double whammy! Congratulations to Jennifer Laughton (Ph.D. student University of Alberta) on successfully passing her Candidacy exam on June 11th! Jennifer was also the recipient of a Graduate Student Teaching Award in recognition of excellence in the performance of teaching assistant duties at the University of Alberta. She was 1 of 14 students from the Faculty of Arts who received the award in April of this year. Way to go, Jen! Read about her research here [...]

Finally "in the field": In August, PhD student Jennifer Laughton spent three weeks in Oxford for dental data collection, spending numerous hours measuring and scanning Baikal and Zvejnieki teeth, in a space at ORAU kindly provided and supported by Dr. Rick Schulting. Having switched from bones to teeth due to the pandemic, she will be undertaking three dental anthropology projects, one of which involves studying interproximal wear facet size changes on teeth to assess dietary changes odontometrically. While in [...]

Congratulations to Jennifer Laughton, BAP PhD student, on being awarded the Graduate Students’ Association Academic Travel Grant from the University of Alberta! Jennifer’s award totals $255.00 CAD and was used to attend the Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology Meetings in Banff, Alberta, Canada. To check out Jennifer’s student profile, go here: https://baikalproject.artsrn.ualberta.ca/team/laughton-jennifer/ Kudos to Jennifer!