In Dr. Miranda Karban's research laboratory, students investigate questions of human skeletal growth and variation. Students have the opportunity to develop their own research questions and hypotheses, and to conduct hands-on research with human bones and x-rays.
Student researchers learn and apply their knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, osteology, geometric morphometrics, and forensic anthropology.
Selected Student Presentations:
- Aguirre I, Karban ME. (2023) “Human orbital index development and sexual dimorphism,” Poster presented 19 March 2023, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Reno, Nevada
- Bone E, Karban ME. (2022) “Correlations between cranial angles and classification of malocclusion,” Poster presented 23 March 2022, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Denver, Colorado
- Price M, Karban ME. (2021) “Investigating sexual dimorphism and development in Homo sapiens nasal aperture shape,” Virtual poster presented 7 April 2021, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists
- Estes LA, Karban ME. (2019) “Scoring external occipital protuberance prominence in extant human growth study cephalograms,” Poster presented 27 March 2019, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Cleveland, Ohio
- Tellez M, Karban ME. (2019) “Estimating sex using human growth study cephalograms,” Poster presented 5 April 2019, Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Academy of Science, Peoria, Illinois
- Thomas JL, Karban ME. (2018) “Assessing occipital bone morphology and brain growth in a developmental study of extant humans,” Podium presentation given 14 April 2018, Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Academy of Science, Decatur, Illinois
- Higginson ST, Karban ME. (2017) “Investigating sexual dimorphism in supraorbital ridge development: A two-dimensional geometric morphometric study,” Poster presented 19 April 2017, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, New Orleans, Louisiana