Student, Faculty, and Alumni News
Faculty News
Dr. Tallman and alumnus Donovan Adams published a new article on “Sex and Gender in Human Skeletal Biology: Slow Movement Beyond the Binary”
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 Gary Reinecke: After 15+ years of teaching and conducting research in the Forensic Anthropology program, Agent Gary Reinecke has retired to enjoy time with his family in Arizona. We thank Agent Reinecke for his many years in the program and extend to him our best wishes in retirement.
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.