Congratulations to our two remaining seniors who presented their senior theses this week! Eva Biedron successfully defended her senior thesis on fossil squirrels from a middle Miocene site in central Oregon through the Clark Honors College on Monday. Selina Robson presented her senior thesis to the Department of Geological Sciences on a new species of Miocene hyena from Kyrgyzstan today. Congratulations to both of them for finishing their degrees! Eva will be headed off to Vanderbilt University to work on her masters while Selina will be heading to the University of Calgary to work on hers!
Kyrgyzstan
Fulbright Scholar : Win McLaughlin
Win McLaughlin was awarded a Fulbright Scholar position for 2015 to help further her research in Kyrgyzstan! She left in January 2015 to begin her 10 month stint preparing fossils in the capital of Bishkek and doing fieldwork (once the weather gets better) in the central part of the country. She is writing a blog about her experience which you can visit here.