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The Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute for Service-Learning (MJUSISL) at Kalamazoo College gathered a team of students, staff, and a community partner to give a panel presentation, “Students as Colleagues:  A Fellowship in Learning,” at the Michigan Campus Compact Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Institute 2012 on January 30 in East Lansing. Sophomore Civic Engagement Scholars Raven Fisher (Detroit) and Roxann Lawrence (Jamaica), with Kalamazoo Communities in Schools Program Director Artrella Cohn, discussed the powerful learning and community impact of the award-winning program they lead, Community Advocates for Parents and Students (CAPS), at Interfaith Homes in Kalamazoo. CAPS is a grassroots, all-volunteer organization that provides tutoring opportunities to KPS students from kindergarten to adult. Left to right in photo are Alison Geist (MJUSISL Director), Artrella Cohn, Breigh Montgomery ’06 (MJUSISL Assistant Director), Raven Fisher ’14, Teresa Denton (MJUSISL Associate Director), Roxann Lawrence ’14.

Lew Miller ’93 will represent the United States at the 32nd International Tennis Federation Seniors World Team Championships. The nation’s top tennis players in age groups 35+ and 55+ will compete against teams from 35 counties February 6 through 11 in San Diego. More than 1,000 athletes are expected to participate. This will be the fourth ITF Cup Team for Miller. He played on the Men’s 35+ Cup Teams in Mallorca (2009), Mexico City (2010), and Christchurch (2011). He is the 2011 Men’s 40+ National Clay Court Doubles Champion. Miller was a member of the NCAA Division III National Championship teams from Kalamazoo College in 1991, 1992, 1993 and was NCAA Division III National Singles Champion in 1991 and 1992. He was a four-time All-American in singles and two-time All-American in doubles. Miller earned a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1998 and is now the Director of U.S. Operations for Affiliated Computer Services in Denver.  He and his wife, Michelle, have two children.

Sarah Lindley, Art, will participate in three upcoming art shows. Lindley and her husband, sculptor Norwood Viviano, are among 35 artists invited to exhibit in “Push Play: The 2012 NCECA Invitational” to be held Jan. 19 through June 17 at the Bellevue Art Museum in Seattle, Wash., in conjunction with the 46th Annual Conference of The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, taking place March 26 through 31 in Seattle. Their work is also included in the show “Tracing Lines,” a multi-faceted exhibition involving photographic works, paintings, and sculptures held Jan. 10 through March 24 at the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space in Columbus. Lindley will exhibit her own sculptures as one of seven artists working in a variety of media participating in “Acts of Recognition” held Feb. 20 through March 17 at Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University in Grand Rapids.

Amelia Katanski '92, English, received the Outstanding Faculty award from Michigan Campus Compact (www.micampuscompact.org) at the Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Conference on January 30 in East Lansing. Nominated by President Eileen B. Wilson-Oyelaran and the College’s Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute for Service-Learning, Katanski was honored for her commitments to local food, food justice, and sustainability and her dedication to engaged, student-centered learning. She has been teaching a first-year seminar, “Cultivating Community” as a service-learning course since 2006. She is also faculty advisor to “Farms to K,” which she co-founded with students, staff, and community partners. “Farms to K” advocates for a local purchasing policy at Kalamazoo College and works closely with other student-led Service-Learning programs, including community gardening initiatives and Migrant Rights Action.

An op-ed piece (“14 Reasons That Made 2011 Great for Trans People”) by Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, is based in part on the work of Jaime Grant, executive director of the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College. Many of the policy gains noted by Keisling were the result of advocacy that was driven and/or supported by the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, which was co-authored by Grant. Keisling cites the study itself as reason #8 of the 14.

Bob Batsell, Psychology, and five graduates in psychology published a paper in the journal, Learning & Behavior (16 November 2011). The paper describes a series of flavor aversion experiments in rats that examined compound conditioning. Co-authors included Elizabeth Wakefield '08, Leigh Ann Ulrey '11, Katie Reimink '09, Steven Rowe '11, and Scott Dexheimer '10.The paper is titled: "CS-US interval determines the transition from overshadowing to potentiation with flavor compounds."

Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran, President, will be the keynote speaker at the JONAH 2012 Prayer Breakfast in honor of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Saturday, January 14, 2012, 9 a.m., at the St. Philip Catholic Church Parish Center, 92 Capital Avenue NE, Battle Creek, Mich. The theme of the event will be “Living and Breathing the Dream.” Entertainment will be provided by Mpatapo, an African drum and dance ensemble of students from Northwestern Middle School in Battle Creek. Tickets for the breakfast are available by contacting JONAH by phone (269-660-1950) or e-mail (info@jonahbc.org). Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door, and available at a discount for blocks of five ($65) or ten ($125).

Taylor Petrey, Religion, has published “Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology” in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (44, no. 4 Winter 2011). According to Petrey, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS), or Mormons, are informed by a particular theology that has thus far constrained acceptance of same sex relationships. Working from within LDS theology, texts, and ritual, Petrey attempts to offer a plausible theological account of how Mormons may be able to accommodate same sex relationships. He said it is the first article of its kind in a major Mormon studies journal. He also led a recent online discussion of his article on the Mormon-themed blog By Common Consent. Petrey earned his Th.D. and M.T.S degrees from Harvard Divinity School. He specializes in teaching New Testament and Early Christianity at Kalamazoo, and  also teaches in the Jewish Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality programs.

Jeanne Hess, Physical Education and women’s volleyball coach, writes about fitness and matters of aging for the website—Older, Not Dead. That website was founded by Charles Tucker ’56 (a.k.a. Mickey Charles) and his wife, Roz. Tucker also founded, and serves as president of, The Sports Network. TSN is the world’s largest independently owned supplier of sports scores and information and has more than 2,000 outlets throughout the world. Hess’ November article on the website is titled “The Soul of an Athlete.”

David Barclay, the Margaret and Roger Scholten Professor of International Studies in the Department of History, has visited Germany three times since late June 2011.  On the first occasion, at the end of June, he presented a keynote address on “Bridges and Barriers: Reflections on Transatlantic Academic Exchanges” at the 25th-anniversary conference of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University of Berlin.  In early September he presented a keynote address titled “Das monarchische Projekt Friedrich Wilhelms IV” (“The Monarchical Project of Frederick William IV”) at a special conference in Coburg, Germany, of the Prince Albert Society in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Prince’s death in 1861.  In early October he participated in the annual board meeting of the Allied Museum in Berlin; the museum is a branch of the larger German Historical Museum.  Barclay also continues to serve as Executive Director of the German Studies Association.  In that capacity he was responsible, among other things, for organizing and directing the GSA’s annual conference in Louisville, Kentucky in late September; in that effort he was ably assisted by Charles Fulton ‘05 and Liz Fulton ‘05.  The conference included 1186 participants and 294 sessions on various aspects of German studies. In November 2011 Barclay participated in a semiannual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies in Minneapolis, where he presented remarks at a panel discussion on “Internationalization of Membership: Expanding Our Global Reach.”   Barclay’s most recent publication is an article titled “Preussens Verschwinden: Ein Streifzug durch die angloamerikanische Literatur” (“Prussia’s Disappearance: A March through the Anglo-American Literature”) in the Winter 2011 issue of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte (Journal of the History of Ideas).  Closer to home, in October he spoke on campus to the Faculty Study Group on “The Crisis of the Humanities and What It Means for Us,” and in October/November he presented three lectures at The Fountains at Bronson Place on the subject of “Does History Teach Us Anything at All?”

Jan Tobochnik, Physics, and his colleague Harvey Gould of Clark University were one of five finalists  for the Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Science award presented at SC11 in Seattle. SC11 is a yearly international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. Tobochnik gave a brief presentation of their work on integrating computation science with their textbook Statistical and Thermal Physics with Computer Applications.

Ajka Suljevic '10 departed for Mali at the end of October to begin pre-service training as a small enterprise development volunteer for the Peace Corps. Once that training is completed (January) she will begin work with Malian associations, non-governmental organizations, and microfinance institutions to assist entrepreneurs and to improve economic opportunites in her community. An article on her Peace Corps experience appeared in her hometown newspaper, the Grand Haven Tribune.

Erin Donevan '12 won first place in the Michigan Voice competition sponsored by the National Association of Teaachers of Singing in early November. Erin, who is majoring in English and music, competed in the Musical Theater category. "So she was competeing against musical theater majors from large schools like Michigan, Michigan State, Western, Eastern, and Grand Valley," said Associate Professor of Music James Turner. "Her first place finish is a very big deal!"

Kevin Howley ’81 is the 2011 recipient of “Ruth’s Angel Award.” The award is given by the Ruth Ellis Center, a nonprofit organization in Highland Park that provides long- and short-term safe space and support services for runaway, homeless and at risk LGBTQ youth in Detroit and southeastern Michigan. The testimonial video honoring Kevin features, among others, President Eileen B. Wilson-Oyelaran. Kevin is former president of the Kalamazoo College Alumni Association Executive Board..

Khalil Ligon ’00 manages The Lower Eastside Action Plan (LEAP) in Detroit, a community-driven project that engages people in the transformation of vacant land and property into uses that improve the quality of life of surrounding neighborhood residents. She was recently interviewed about her work in a segment of CBS-Detroit’s Street Beat.

Pierre Miller '05 is part of a CBS-News Chicago story about the Chicago School of Piano Technology, one of only two that teach students the art and science of piano repair. Miller has no speaking part in the story, but the Kalamazoo College graduate is the one playing piano throughout the piece.

Ellen Chenoweth ’08 recently contacted Paul Sotherland, Biology, about a new chapter in her life. She is just starting a Ph.D. program in fisheries at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. The program is partially funded by the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program. Chenoweth is studying humpback whales that appear to have discovered when and where salmon hatcheries release their young-of-the-year fish. The whales have been showing up about a day after the release and feeding hard on the fish. “To the point that I heard a manager talk about potentially having to shut down in the future,” wrote Chenoweth. “Probably the bulk of my work will be bioenergetic modeling and stable isotope analysis of whale tissue that might tell us what they have been feeding on. Starting school again has given me opportunities to reflect on my time at ‘K’ with gratitude.”

Amy Elman, Political Science, recently lectured at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her talk, “European Integration: Anti-Semitism and EU Remedies,” was sponsored by the University’s European Union Center of Excellence in cooperation with International Studies, Jewish Studies, and Women and Gender Studies. Elman’s talk is in keeping with her current research that will result in her third book-length work on European integration. Her previous book, Sexual Inequality in an Integrated Europe, was published by Palgrave in 2007. 

Kate VandenBosch '77 was named dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She will oversee the college's 19 academic departments, spanning environmental, social and basic life sciences and production agriculture, as well as numerous research centers, Cooperative Extension Service programs within the college, and the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station. She has been head of the plant biology department at the University of Minnesota (St. Paul) since 2001 and previously was

Jan Tobochnik, Physics, will receive the American Association of Physics Teachers Distinguished Service Citation at AAPT’s 2012 winter meeting in Ontario, California. Tobochnik has been a member of AAPT since 1987. Among other accomplishments, he was co-organizer and co-chair of the first Gordon Research Conference on physics teaching and the editor of the American Journal of Physics for 10 years.

Rachel Udow ’08 is a grant writer for Migrant Health Promotions in Weslaco, Texas. She’s also a songwriter and performer. As the latter, she specializes in guitar and, well, body drumming. For more information, check out this article.

Gail Griffin, English, has published “4” in the Winter 2011 issue of the online journal The Prose Poem Project. Her prose-poem is the fourth in a series where she adopted the voices of famous witches in fairy tale and film to talk about aging.  “4” is a fusion of "Blair Witch Project" and "Hansel and Gretel," and it's specifically about teaching.

Autumn Hostetter, Psychology, and Catherine “Cate” Skirving ’10 recently published “The Effect of Visual vs. Verbal Stimuli on Gesture Production” in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior (2011. 35:205-223). Previous research suggests that speakers gesture more when they are describing information learned in a verbal format. Hostetter’s and Skirving’s study examined whether this difference in gesture is due to decreased verbal accessibility when information has been learned visuo-spatiality or to the decreased accessibility of mental images when information has been learned verbally. Participants in their study described the events of stories learned under two conditions. In one condition, participants heard a verbal description twice. In the second condition, they heard the verbal description once and then watched an animated cartoon of the events. Hostetter and Skirving found increased representational gestures when speakers had watched the cartoon in addition to hearing its description. Importantly, this increase in gesture does not appear to be due to differences in speech accessibility or output, suggesting that speakers gesture when they have a clear image in mind and not just when they do not have ready access to verbal labels. Skirving majored in psychology and religion at Kalamazoo and is now pursuing her masters of social work degree at Michigan State University. The paper she co-authored with Hostetter is based on research Skirving completed for her Senior Individualized Project at Kalamazoo.

Amy Stokes ’88 is a 2011 CNN Hero, one of 10 persons identified by the international news network as ordinary individuals who go to extraordinary lengths to serve others. Amy was recognized for her innovative approach to mentoring that connects African children affected by HIV/AIDS and poverty with mentors around the world using video technology. Through Infinite Family, an international organization she founded in 2006, Amy is dedicated to using technology as a way for adults around the world to nurture and support children who are faced with few choices. A special broadcast tribute of the top ten 2011 CNN Heroes will air in December, culminating with the announcement of the CNN Hero of the Year, as voted by supporters on the CNN website through December 7.

Michael Ricco, Economics and Business, has presented several academic papers recently. These include: “Travel Marketing Collaboration Effectiveness: Which Metrics Matter,” at the Great Lakes Hospitality and Tourism Educators’ Annual Conference (Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 2011); “ Building Travel Marketing Collaboration Success via Dedicated Alliance Functions” at the Travel and Tourism Research Association (London, Ontario, Canada, June 2011); and “Integrating Marketing into an Open Registration, Liberal Arts Curriculum” at the Marketing and Management Association Educator’s Conference (St. Louis, Missouri, September 2011).

Laura Milkins ’93 completed her epic 1,951-mile, 156-day walk from her Arizona home to her mother’s doorstep in Grand Rapids on Oct. 3. She walked through searing heat, record drought and wind with nothing but faith in the kindness of strangers to pull her through each day. Her journey was shared via live video on the Internet at www.justin.tv/lmilkins.

Marvi Lacar '98 has produced a short film, Escape, that documents the rescue and rehabilitation of Maasai girls who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and early marriage, two practices often endemic in poverty stricken communities that consider women as lucrative property to be “sold” to the highest bidder. The film depicts the lives of, among others, Naanyu Sekut, who at some 13 years of age is forced to marry a man more than 20 years her senior. Her cousin, Seleyian Sekut, 10, is rescued from her husband. Others like Carolyn, Jennifer, Mary, Salula, and Teresia were rescued by the Tasaru Safehouse for Girls where they are provided shelter, security and free primary and secondary education. The movie explores the tenacity of some village elders bent on continuing a deeply rooted practice and the struggle by a growing segment of the community to redefine “tradition” despite the consequences.

James (Jae) Edmonds '69 has been named a Battelle Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he has worked for 25 years. The promotion honors his scientific accomplishments, leadership, and service to national and international climate science communities. Edmonds was one of the first researchers to link climate science to policy and decision-making. He developed computer models that explore the relationships between energy, technology, policy, and the environment. He has worked with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1990. IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Edmonds also leads the development of the Global Climate Assessment Model. Only five other PNNL scientists and engineers have achieved the rank of Battelle Fellow.

Alice (Amy) Klug, ’83 owns the Old Mill of Guilford, a fully operational water-powered 18th Century grist mill and country store near Greensboro, N.C. listed on the National Register of Historical Places. Established in 1767, the mill continues to produce all-natural, stone-ground, whole grain foods, just as it has for more than 250 years. The mill produces corn meals and grits along with a wide range of mixes including sweet potato and oat bran muffin mixes, gingerbread, Scottish scones, Scottish shortbread, and a German shortbread cookie mix. Amy worked as a marketing analyst in corporate America, traveling the globe for her employers for many years. When she had children, she sought a more family-centered life, so she and husband Darrell bought the mill as a business venture close to home. Learn more about the Old Mill of Guilford at www.oldmillofguilford.com.

Diane Seuss' poem "What is at the heart of it is a voracious clinging to what is called love" is a finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize.  Another poem, "Am I supposed to know the difference between fiction, nonfiction and poetry? I don't," was a finalist for the Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize.  And two poems, "White violet, not so much an image" and "I can't listen to music, especially Lush Life" were finalists for the Missouri Review Poetry Prize and were featured in the magazine. Seuss, who teaches in the English department, gave a September poetry reading at Colby College (Waterville, Maine), and will read at Colorado College in the spring.

Suzanne Lepley, Admission, has been elected to a two-year term as chairperson and president of Colleges That Change Lives (CTCL), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement and support of a student-centered college search process. CTCL presents accurate information about college accessibility at sessions around the country and provides college counseling information and resources through its website and other outreach efforts. Colleges That Change Lives was founded as a result of a book with the same name that was researched and written by retired New York Times education editor Loren Pope. The book profiles 40 small colleges and universities across the United States that share two essential elements: a sense of communal enterprise that gets students heavily involved in cooperative rather than competitive learning, and a faculty of scholars devoted to helping young people develop their powers. Kalamazoo College has been profiled in each edition of CTCL since it was first published in 1996. The book is currently being updated with an expected release in September of 2012. Suzanne coordinates all student recruitment for the College in Michigan, Maryland, Virginia, and District of Columbia. She also coordinates all transfer student recruitment and directly recruits students from the Kalamazoo/Portage area.

Gary Gregg, Psychology, conducted a class for some 80 U.S. State Department diplomats training for Middle East postings. The class occurred at the Foreign Service Institute, the State Department's post-graduate college, in Washington, D.C. Gregg's class focused on social organization and culture in Arab-Muslim societies. It's not his first work in this area. A couple years ago he gave a talk at Georgetown University on life-span development in Arab-Muslim societies.

Steve Elkinton '69 is the speaker for September meeting of the Chief Noonday Chapter (Battle Creek, Mich.) of the North Country Trail. Elkinton works for the National Park Service and is a program leader for the National Trails System. He earned his B.A. in art at "K" and has a second degree in landscape architecture from the University of Pennsylvania (1976). He has hiked bo the Appalachian and Pacific trails.

Jennifer Furchak, Chemistry, has been awarded the Research Innovation Award for her presentation, "Detection of biomarkers for breast cancer metastasis using a molecular beacon-based assay," at the Symposium on Small Scale Separations. The selection committee noted its belief that her work has the possibility to revolutionize breast cancer screening and found her work to be creative and groundbreaking.

Regina Stevens-Truss, Chemistry, delivered the keynote lecture at the University of Michigan’s Interdiciplinary Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in the Structure and Function of Proteins.  REUs are competitive opportunities for undergraduate students from across the country. They are administered by various institutions and are funded by the National Science Foundation. Stevens-Truss' lecture, “Understanding how Calmoduin binds to Nitric Oxide Synthases (NOS): A Historical Timeline,” was the first annual keynote lecture at this summer research closing symposium, and it guided the students through her progression in studies of calmoduin and NOS.  The undergraduate researchers present their work either as oral or poster presentations during these symposiums.  In addition to Stevens-Truss, Sandrine Zilikana ’12 also presented orally her summer work, which is the subject of her Senior Individualized Project in chemistry.

David M. Thoms ’70 has been has been re-elected secretary of the executive committee of the Michigan Colleges Foundation, a collective of 14 independent colleges and universities throughout Michigan, including Kalamazoo College. MCF works to provide financial resources that support scholarships and operations and to develop collective initiatives that attract, engage, and retain talent for Michigan. David is a principal with Miller Canfield law firm in its Troy, Mich. office where he specializes in estate planning and tax, non-profit organizations, business entity planning and tax, succession planning, and real estate. He received a J.D. degree from the University of Detroit-Mercy, and L.L.M. in taxation and Master of Urban Planning degrees from Wayne State University. David was also recently re-elected to a one-year term as president of the board of directors of Alliance Françaises de Grosse Pointe (Mich.).

On September 1, 2011, Professor of Physics Jan Tobochnik will step down as editor of the American Journal of Physics (AJP), a post he’s held since July 1, 2001. David Jackson of Dickinson College will take over as editor. Throughout the autumn Tobochnik will remain as a consultant to the new editor. During Tobochnik’s tenure as editor, AJP was expanded from a print-only publication to both print and online versions, and all back issues were made available online. In addition, free color online figures were made possible; the entire editorial process was made electronic, allowing editorial work to be done anywhere in the world with an internet connection; and online videos within articles became possible. The most important achievement is that AJP continues to be the top physics journal devoted to the educational and cultural aspects of physics at the undergraduate and graduate level. “Its articles are probably more widely read than any other physics journal's articles in the world,” said Tobochnik. While he was editor, 70 percent of Tobochnik's salary was paid by the American Association of Physics Teachers, which owns AJP. During his editorship Tobochnik co-authored the text Statistical and Thermal Physics with his long time colleague Harvey Gould (Clark University). He took a one-year leave of absence from the editorship to serve as interim provost of Kalamazoo College in 2007-2008.  Tobochnik will return to full-time teaching and devote more time to research and continue with various educational projects.

Amy Trenkle '97 is an 8th-grade history teacher at Stuart-Hobson Middle School (Washington, D.C.) and the first middle school teacher to win the Mount Vernon Estate's History Teacher of the Year!

Mark Morrow ’10 had just finished up a stint in France teaching English to middle and high school students in May when his sister, mother, and father came for a visit sporting Detroit Tiger baseball shirts. Check out their photo at the Detroit Free Press “Travel With The D” website. Hey Mark, next time tell the family to bring their "K" College Hornet gear!

Kathie VanderPloeg ’78 never had any desire to work for Ship-Pac Inc., the packaging materials distributing company her parents started in Kalamazoo in 1964. She earned her B.A. degree in music education from “K” in hopes of becoming a teacher. But by the time she graduated, the business, which sells packaging and shipping products, had gotten into her blood, she said. Today, she is company CEO and owner. Read about Kathie in a Kalamazoo Gazette “Women in Business” special section.

Adriana Garriga-Lopez, Anthropology and Sociology, co-wrote a chapter in the recently published book Sovereign Acts. The title of the chapter is "Contested Sovereignties: Puerto Rico and American Samoa." The book, edited by Frances Negron-Muntaner, explores and expands the notion of political sovereignty and investigates its relationship with gender, sexuality, representation and the body.

Anne Haeckl, Classical Studies, has published her report about last summer's Vergilian Society tour of Campania and the Bay of Naples. Of the tour's 28 participants, five were Kalamazoo College students and alumni, and their inclusion was a collaboration between Anne and the College's Alumni Relations office. Wrote Anne, "Our tour's theme of the archaeology of identity approached the spectacular sites of Campania and the Bay of Naples, which were early and influential laboratories for inventing a new imperial identity as Rome grew from isolated village to Mediterranean superpower." The article was published in the 2010 Vergilius and is titled "The Archaeology of Identity in Coastal Campania: How Ancient Italians and Greeks Became Romans on the Bay of Naples."

One of the hallmarks of a liberal arts education is broad application of new knowledge and technology. Paleontologist Jeff Wilson '91 uses three-dimensional copying technology to collect dinosaur tracks. Wilson wrote to Professor of Biology Paul Sotherland: "It is slightly more complicated than they let on, but essentially it is a technology that is becoming more commonly used in paleo. I made scans of a tracksite in southern Africa (using the same scanner they showed in the video) and brought the data back to Ann Arbor." Wilson is a professor at the University of Michigan. He has used the new technology to print endocasts and to reverse bones for reconstructions or mounts for exhibitions.Sotherland said, "This is cool, the technology and the ways Jeff uses it."