Summer Fellows 2006

	Justin Ledogar completed his undergraduate studies at Stony Brook University and graduated magna cum laude. He is currently a Physical Anthropology MA student. His research interests include human evolution and the comparative and functional morphology of early hominins. Particularly, he is interested in the phyletic relationships of the "robust" australopithecines. He is also interested in the suites of morphological traits that comprise functional complexes, such as the masticatory apparatus.
	Danielle Royer completed her undergraduate studies in biological anthropology and prehistoric archaeology at the University of Toronto, and holds an MA in anthropology from Stony Brook University. Her research focuses on variation in the postcranial morphology of early Homo sapiens fossils from Africa, Europ,e and the Levant. She is involved in the description and morphometric analysis of the Omo 1 skeleton discovered in the Kibish Formation of southwestern Ethiopia, at the northern extent of the Turkana Basin.
	Anne Su, who holds an MS in Mechanical/Biomechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, is interested in using her background to study locomotor adaptations within primates with a special interest in the changes that accompanied bipedalism. Her research focuses on correlations between primate locomotor modes and the external and internal morphology of the bones of the ankle joint. It is hoped that these biomechanical correlations will contribute to better reconstructions of the locomotor environment of fossil animals.
	Jeff Yule is a Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolution who also holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Ohio State University. He studies vertebrate biodiversity and the causes and evolutionary/ecological consequences of extinctions. His dissertation research focuses on the ecological modeling of Pleistocene North American ecosystems and megafaunal extinctions, work that he expects to be relevant for contemporary conservation.