Ryan Shanks has joined the lab to do a PhD starting in Fall 2020. Ryan recently completed an MS on trigonotarbid systematics with Paul Selden at the University of Kansas.

Alex Bradley successfully defended his MS thesis, "Politicurus and a related genus of hintzecurine trilobites from the late Skullrockian (Tremadocian: Early Ordovician) of western Utah and southeastern Idaho." Alex is staying in the lab to do a PhD starting this Fall.