On April 15th, the Museum of Paleontology celebrated our annual Ermine Cowles Case Memorial Lecture and gave out our Case Student Paper award, made for the best manuscript completed for publication by a student at the University of Michigan in the field of paleontology or historical geology.
We congratulate Jerónimo Morales-Toledo on his paper: ‘Extinct Lineages in a Rift Landscape: Middle Jurassic Bennettitales from the Otlaltepec Formation Reveal Generalist and Specialist Patterns in Western Laurasia’, which was recipient of the 2025 Case Student Paper Award
Jared Shiffert, was also recipient of the Russell B. King grant in vertebrate paleontology, for his project ‘Illuminating the rise of Cretaceous eutherian mammals in Kazakhstan’. This grant will help Jared establish an international collaboration to collect and study Cretaceous mammal assemblages in Kazakhstan.
Michigan Geophysical Union (MGU) SymposiumThe MGU symposium is an annual spring event sponsored by the Departments of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Departments. This is a friendly forum designed to showcase and reward outstanding student research in the fields of Earth, oceanic, atmospheric, and space sciences. Two of our undergraduate students were highlighted with best poster and student talks this year! Congratulations!
Ella Squire
Best poster
Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblage from Dumbbell Hill (Lance Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming), Implications for Topographic Diversity Gradients in the Latest Cretaceous
Abigail Waller
Best student talk
A new Late Jurassic multituberculate skull (Glirodon grandis) from the Morrison Formation of Utah: implications for the taxonomy and phylogeny of ‘plagiaulacidan’ multituberculates
