The Journal of Human Evolution Prize - For an excellent poster or podium presentation on human or primate evolution Elizabeth Tapanes, George Washington University ([email protected])- Ecology and opsin variation drives the evolution of hair phenotypes across Indriidae lemurs – implications for human evolution


The AAA-AAPA Anatomy in Anthropology podium prize - For excellent presentations that are judged to best implement either traditional or state-of-the-art anatomical methodologies in innovative anthropological research (subject to co-funding by the American Association for Anatomy)
Alexa Kelly, University of North Texas Health Science Center ([email protected])- Energetic Demands and Sexual Dimorphism in Inuit Nasal Morphology


The Mildred Trotter Prize - For an excellent poster or podium presentation on bones or teeth
Elizabeth Cho, University of Missouri - The influence of climate and population structure on East Asian skeletal morphology ([email protected])


The Patricia Whitten Prize - For an excellent poster or podium presentation on primatology
Arielle Fogel, Duke University ( [email protected])- Mapping putative genetic barriers to gene flow in hybrid baboons


The American Association of Physical Anthropologists Awards for Outstanding Student Presentations (Four in total)

• Alex DeCasien, New York University and the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology ([email protected])- Patterns of sex-biased gene expression in rhesus macaque brains are similar to those observed in human brains
• Colton Unger, University of Calgary, Canada ([email protected])- Why the long face? A study of cranial shape change in mice artificially selected for longer limbs
• Aleksey Maro, University of California, Berkeley ( [email protected] )- Dietary ethanol in the main food (Ficus mucuso) of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in a tropical rain forest
• Jordan Anderson, Duke University ([email protected])- Early life adversity predicts DNA methylation levels in wild adult baboons

The American Association of Physical Anthropologists Honorable Mention for Student Presentations (three in total)

• Faye McGechie, University of Missouri ( [email protected])- 3D Functional Anatomy of Nuchal Musculature in Primates
• Leslie Quade, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, and Durkham University, UK ([email protected])- Stressed to the tooth? A pilot study of cortisol in archaeological tooth structures
• L. Creighton Avery, McMaster University ([email protected])- Investigating Social Age Changes in the Roman Empire through Dietary Stable Isotopes