Student, Faculty, and Alumni News

• Second-year students, Amelia Blanton, Rachel Chaney, Ellen Dooley, Jessica Daniels, and Savannah Mills, presented their preliminary thesis research at the Bioarchaeologists’ Northeast Regional Dialog in Camden, NJ on November 2, 2019.

• Several students and faculty attended and presented their research studies at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
• Grace Kilroy (GMS Forensic Anthropology, 2019) has been accepted into the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville! Congratulations Grace!
• Madelyn Green (GMS Forensic Anthropology, 2019) has been accepted into the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at Ohio State University! Congratulations Madelyn!
• Aubrie Sanchez (GMS Forensic Anthropology, 2019) has been accepted into the multidisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Ohio State University for the Fall 2019 semester. Congratulations Aubrie!!
• Michelle Herrera, Grace Kilroy and Aubrie Sanchez presented their thesis research at the Bioarchaeologists’ Northeast Regional Dialogue in Syracuse, NY on October 13th, 2018. Congratulations on your presentations!

• Aubrie Sanchez (GMS Forensic Anthropology, 2019) received a scholarship from the County Treasurers’ Association of Texas. Congratulations Aubrie!
• Four students presented with Dr. Tallman at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting in Austin, TX in April. Click here to see the list of posters.
• Several students, faculty, and alumni will be presenting their research at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA Feb 19-24th, 2018. Click HERE for a list of the presentations from the Program in Forensic Anthropology.
• Two of our recent graduates, Christopher Eck and Jacqueline Berger have been accepted to the PhD program in Anthropology at the University of South Florida! Congratulations to Chris and Jackie!
• Several students, faculty, and alumni will be presenting their research at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA February 13-18th, 2017. Click here for a list of the presentations from the Program in Forensic Anthropology.
• Four of our students, Katie Faillace, Jackie Berger, Nora Heidel and Mary Studebaker-Reed, won the William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. The prize help to defray the costs of attending the AAPA annual meeting. Students submitted a short essay reviewed and scored by the AAPA Student Prize Committee. Congratulations!
• Several recent graduates and alumni from our program had their work with Dr. Pokines accepted for publication. Please click here for our list of student and faculty publications.
• Several students from our program will be presenting the results from their thesis research in February at the 2016 Annual Meeting for the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in Las Vegas, NV.

Dr. Pokines received a grant award for the 2022 National Institute of Justice FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes. His grant is entitled “Gull (Laridae) Taphonomy at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Maine, USA”. The proposed research will examine the dispersal and feeding damage caused on large vertebrate remains by seasonally nesting herring gulls and great black backed gulls. It is hypothesized that these Laridae species will disperse bone at greater distances than inland avian species due to their aggressive flocking behavior and vocal signaling of other birds upon the discovery of food sources. These results will be used to formulate best search and recovery practices for dispersed human remains in coastal environments.

In 2018, Dr. Tallman found the remains of Lieutenant William McGowan, a relative of Questrom School of Business professor Timothy Simcoe who was shot down on D-Day, June 6, 1944. In July, following years of delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Simcoe and his family will travel to Normandy to inter McGowan in the US cemetery there. Read more.

Four students presented with Dr. Tallman at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting in Austin, TX in April. Click here to see the list of posters.

Several students, faculty, and alumni will be presenting their research at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA Feb 19-24th, 2018. Click HERE for a list of the presentations from the Program in Forensic Anthropology.

Agent Reinecke:

• is a co-investigator on a two newly funded grant awards from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice to investigate the use of a contactless, three dimensional scanner for collecting latent fingerprints from various surfaces and collecting postmortem fingerprints from unidentified human remains. Congratulations!
• has been promoted to Assistant Professor in Anatomy and Neurobiology! Congratulations Agent Reinecke!
• recently published findings from a NIJ grant with his collaborators at the University of Texas, San Antonio and FlashScan3D.
• was named the Program Assistant Director of the Forensic Anthropology Program. Gary joined our faculty in 2011 after retiring from the FBI after 24 years of service. Learn more about his fascinating career and role in our program. Congratulations Gary!

Dr. Pokines: Read the latest news story about Dr. Pokines’ newest publication! Read the story. Dr. Pokines has been promoted to Associate Professor in Anatomy and Neurobiology!

Dr. Tallman has received a second appointment as an Assistant Professor in the department of Anthropology on the Boston University Charles River Campus.