News Archive

July 30, 2025

PhD candidate Baonhu Tran (Maddux Lab) received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) from the National Science Foundation to support her dissertation project:  “Re-evaluating the role of the respiratory system in human thermoregulation.” 

May 22, 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Courtney Miller (Menegaz Lab) for receiving the 2025 UNT Health Chancellor’s Award for Scholarly Excellence.

The Chancellor’s Award for Scholarly Excellence recognizes an outstanding graduate from UNT Health Fort Worth with an emphasis on scholarly research.

May 8, 2025

PhD candidate Baonhu Tran (Maddux Lab) received a Research Grant from the Leakey Foundation to support her dissertation project:  “Experimentally re-evaluating the role of the respiratory system in human thermoregulatory adaptation.”

April 28, 2025

PhD student Courtney Miller (Menegaz Lab) received the Dean’s Award for Scholarly Achievement in Research at the CBTS Annual Award Ceremony.

Other CAS honorees included:

• Janet Sims, Staff Outstanding Service Award
• Courtney Miller, Structural Anatomy & Rehabilitation Sciences Outstanding Student Award
• Gwendolyn Miller, Outstanding SABS Member Award
• Rachel Menegaz, PhD, Golden Apple Award for Teaching

April 11, 2025

PhD candidate Baonhu Tran (Maddux Lab) received a Dissertation Field Work research grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to support her dissertation project:  “Reevaluating the role of the respiratory system in human thermoregulation and climatic adaptation.” 

February 25, 2025

Dr. Graci Finco received an R21 research grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering (1R21EB036447-01) to support her project focused on evaluating fall risks in users of lower limb prosthetics: “Bionic and robotic prostheses: identifying bioethical concerns from key groups to improve development and clinical translation approaches.”

February 20, 2025

Dr. Lauren Gonzales received a New Investigator Grant from the UNT Health Research Enhancement Assistance Program (REAP) to support her project focused on creating a publicly accessible digital data repository for fossils recovered from the Middle Miocene site of Moboko Island, Kenya: “Preserving the past: establishing a digital database and archive for the Maboko Research Project (1982-present).”

January 31, 2025

An article by Dr. Kate Lesciotto named to the Journal of Forensic Sciences’ list of 2024 “Noteworthy Articles“.  Noteworthy Articles are selected annually by the JFS Editors to highlight the most impactful scientific articles in forensic science. 

Lesciotto, K. M., & Christensen, A. M. (2024). The over‐citation of Daubert in forensic anthropology. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 69(1), 9-17.

September 26, 2024

Dr. Kate Lesciotto received a research grant from the National Institute of Justice (15PNIJ-24-GG-03840-NIJB) to support her project focused on improving estimates of biological profile parameters in forensic investigations: “MOSAIC: Unifying Methods of Sex, Stature, Affinity, & Age for Identification through Computational Standardization.”

August 9, 2024

PhD candidate Lyndee Ward received a research grant from the National Science Foundation (BCS Biological Anthropology #2419511) in support of her Dissertation project: “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Nasal morphological responses to thermal and exertional conditions.”

July 1, 2024

Dr. Rebecca Cook joined the Center for Anatomical Sciences as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Cook’s research focuses on the biomechanics and functional morphology of the human pelvis from evolutionary and clinical perspectives.

June 10, 2024

PhD candidate Lyndee Ward received a research grant from the Leakey Foundation in support of her Dissertation project: “Climate and human nasal evolution: Experimentally investigating skeletal and soft-tissue influences on nasal airflow dynamics in living humans”

March 25, 2024

PhD student Courtney Miller and former student Tooba Husain (MS 2022) won student presentation awards at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Anatomy (AAA) in Toronto, Canada.

• Courtney Miller – Langman Graduate Student Platform Award
• Tooba Husain – Early Career Anatomist Publication Award

March 23, 2024

PhD students Lyndee Ward and Baonhu Tran won student presentation awards at the 93nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) in Los Angeles, CA.

• Lyndee Ward – AABA Outstanding Student Presentation Award
• Baonhu Tran – AABA-AAA “Anatomy in Anthropology” Student Presentation Award