Paleontology Research Lab, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University
Current Graduate Students
Haviv Avrahami
PhD expected 2025
"An exceptional assemblage of orodromine dinosaur remains, from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Mussentuchit Member of the CMF, Utah"
Willie Freimuth
PhD expected 2025
therizinosaur systematics and paleobiology
Kyla Beguesse
PhD expected 2025
“A new approach for identifying pathologic bone in extant and extinct archosaurian species”
Kyle Obuszewski
MS expected 2025
Ceratopsian evolution
Steve Finch
PhD expected 2027
Impact of the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum on terrestrial biodiversity in Mongolia
Emily Cross
PhD expected 2028
Impact of the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum on trophic networks
Alumni
Josh Hedge
PhD 2024
"Variation in the Ornamentation of Elongatoolithid Eggs and the Implications for Oviraptorosaur Nesting"
Nathan McCuen
MS 2024
"Teeth and Taxonomy: The Dinosaur Microfauna of the Straight Cliffs Formation Reexamined"
Evan Jevnikar
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MS 2021
"A comprehensive ontogenetic analysis of Tarbosaurus bataar provides insights into intraskeletal and individual variation of tyrannosaurid growth"
Jens Kosch
MS 2020
"Sampling Impacts Assessments of Tooth Growth and Replacement Rates in Archosaurs: implications for paleontological studies"
Haviv Avrahami
MS 2019
"Paleobiodiversity of a new microvertebrate locality from the Upper Cretaceous Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah: testing morphometric multivariate approaches for quantifying shape variation in microvertebrate specimens"
Lisa Herzog
MS 2019
"Morphological Characteristics and Variability of Helochelydrid Turtles in North America: evidence for a new species"
Khai Button
PhD 2018
"Quantifying Beak Shape and Soft Tissue Ecomorphology of Avian and Non-Avian Dinosaurs"
Susan Drymala
