Raphaela Meloro

We are pleased to welcome Raphaela Meloro as the newest graduate student in the lab! Raphaela has made valuable contributions to our NSF Atlas of Primate Skeletal Growth, and she is currently working to optimize our computers for our data-intensive virtual reconstructions.  She was born in Montreal and was raised in South Florida. She completed her bachelor’s degree with High Honors at University of Florida in May 2017, with majors in Anthropology and Biology. Some of her past research experiences have included volunteering at the C.A. Pound Human Identification Lab and Shands Hospital, interning at the District 8 Office of the Medical Examiner, and completing fieldwork at the Archaeotek Field School. For fun, she loves to bake, sew, and read old sci-fi books. While at UF, she hopes to study forensic anthropology and taphonomic research.

 

 

Naomi Levin

Our newest undergraduate student addition to the lab is Naomi Levin. She was born in Westin, Florida but raised in Jacksonville. Naomi is an undergraduate senior and is working to graduate with honors by completing her senior thesis. Her thesis research is on juvenile obesity and the effects on epiphyseal fusion. She has also been volunteering at the C.A. Pound Human Identification Lab and with her fraternity. Naomi also participated in the Archaeotek Field School in Transylvania, Romania where she presented on taphonomic changes she observed. For fun, she loves to read adventure and sci-fi books, go to the gym with friends, traveling, photography, and painting. She hopes to complete her undergraduate studies here at UF in biological anthropology in Spring 2018 before she continues onto graduate school.