Miranda (Utzinger) Karban ’08 received her PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Iowa. Her dissertation was titled “The Ontogeny of Occipital Bone Convexity in a Longitudinal Sample of Extant Humans.” The dissertation explored cranial growth and development patterns in modern humans and Neanderthals. In the fall of 2016, she starts her position as Assistant Professor of Biology at Illinois College.