YIBS Dissertation Enhancement Grants 2012

Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) Director, Os Schmitz, is pleased to announce the recipients of the YIBS Dissertation Enhancement Awards for 2012. 

Chair of the Dissertation Enhancement Awards committee, Richard Bribiescas, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, and his committee members Professor James Saiers at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), and Professors Andrew Hill and Eric Sargis in the Department of Anthropology, chose the following doctoral students to receive awards of $10,000 each:

Rachel Racicot

Advisor:   Professor Jacques Gauthier in the Department of Geology & Geophysics

Research topic:  Phylogenetics of Dolphins and their Relatives (Cetacea: Delphinoidea): Evolution and Diversification of Extant and Fossil Delphinoids as Depicted by Inner Ear

Woosok Moon

Advisor:  Professor John Wettlaufer in the Department of Geology & Geophysics

Research topic:  Arctic Sea Ice: Trends, Stability and Variability

Kristina Guild

Advisor:  Professor Roderick McIntosh in the Department of Anthropology

Research topic:  Colonization, Interaction and the Evolution of Landscape:  The Arrival of Human Communities on the Southwest Coast of Madagascar