Friday, May 7, 2010

Heather Dingwall Wins Gamow Fellowship to Research Evolution of Human Gait

Heather Dingwall, a double major in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology, has received a George Gamow Fellowship to study what ancient footprints tell about the origins of human gait. Prof. Brian Richmond is her advisor. Heather is looking forward to going to Kenya, where a team that included Dr. Richmond discovered 1.5-million-year-old hominin footprints at Ileret.

More on Gamow Fellowships: http://www.gwu.edu/~fellcent/gamow.htm

More on Ileret footprints: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;323/5918/1197

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