Opportunities 

Our lab community welcomes and values participation by students and other researchers with diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, who share both our excitement for science and our commitment to ethical and professional conduct. If you also share these interests and priorities, please contact us!

Undergraduate Students

We welcome opportunities for undergraduate students to become involved in research conducted in our laboratory, and in fact, undergraduate students have contributed in important ways to many of our past and ongoing projects. If you are interested in gaining research experience in our lab, please read about our ongoing research projects. If our research priorities connect with your interests, please get in touch via email. As a practical note, we encourage you to reach out as early as you can, ideally prior to the semester in which you hope to get involved. We do our best to balance student participation against available time and resources, to make sure students have access to the mentoring that they both deserve and need to become contributing members of the lab.

Graduate students

Research in our lab employs a variety of approaches to address questions about the evolution of primate growth and development, life history, and hard tissue biology. Students interested in joining our lab for MS or PhD level studies should first read about our ongoing research projects, and examples of our publications. If your research intersects with our own, we encourage you to get in touch via email. It would be helpful if you could provide the following information: a current CV, including relevant coursework and/or research experience, a brief statement of why you are interested in attending graduate school, why you think our lab is a good fit for you, and any thoughts regarding what you hope to study. Graduate students most commonly enter our laboratory through GW’s MS and PhD programs in Human Paleobiology.