Mack is currently working on her honors thesis in Anthropology, exploring cost-effective and accurate methods to gather stomach pH from primates. She hopes that comparative analysis of stomach pH will give evidence to how early humans obtained meat sources - scavenging or hunting. Mack plans to pursue a PhD in biological anthropology, where she can combine her knowledge of anatomical data with primate behavior and genetics to study the primate brain and sensory evolution.

As an archaeologist, Christie Vogler says it’s important for people to have a true picture of what she does for a living. “Archaeologists are fantasized and represented in media in ways that are not very accurate,” says the University of Iowa doctoral candidate in Classical archaeology. Too often, she says, the traditional portrayal of an archaeologist’s life is one of swashbuckling adventure, à la Indiana Jones. While her professional life is often an adventure, it’s rarely swashbuckling. “It’s important to explain to people what it’s really like,” says Vogler.

Meena Khandelwal (with Fred Smith, Religious Studies) has been awarded the FY20 Provost’s Global Forum Award funded by the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization for their proposal "The Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi at 150: Nonviolence, Race, and Politics."

Jeongeun Lee has been awarded a 2019 Dillingham Award from the Central States Anthropological Society. The Beth Wilder Dillingham Award aids young scholars in anthropology with dependent children.