PhD Candidate Margaret Furtner receives Research Grant from The Leakey Foundation for Doctoral Dissertation Research

Margaret Furtner, a fourth year PhD Candidate in the department advised by Dr. Juliet Brophy, has received a Research Grant from The Leakey Foundation for her research on fossil site prediction in southern Africa. The grant will help fund travel to South Africa to ground truth machine learning models that have predicted the location of new cave sites in the Cradle of Humankind. An announcement can be viewed on the Leakey Foundation website.