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RE: Penn PhD Dissertation Defense Today for Josh Smith
Good Luck to Dr. Smith (in advance - sounds like a done-deal).
Now there'll be 2 Dr. J. Smiths wandering Washington U's campus!
As long as you keep away from Will Robinson and that robot! Oh, Dear!
:-)
["Lost In Space" reference].
Seriously, good luck Josh.
Allan Edels
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu] On Behalf
Of Patricia Kane-Vanni
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 4:00 PM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Cc: smithjb@sas.upenn.edu
Subject: Penn PhD Dissertation Defense Today for Josh Smith
Fellow Dino listers:
Just returned from Josh Smith's doctoral dissertation defense
entitled
"Dental Morphology & Variation in Theropod Dinosaurs: Implications for
the
Idea of Isolated Teeth". It was held at the University of Pennsylvania
and
although because of the timing most practitioners are in the field or
traveling, there were many familiar faces in attendance. Of course
Josh's
advisor and ceratopsian expert , Dr. Peter Dodson, as well as other Penn
Earth & Environmental Sciences Faculty, Dr. Gomaah Omar and Dr. Herman
Pfefferkorn. Also in attendance were Dr. Bob Giegengack (aka Gieg) and
several other members of the 2000 Egyptian/Bahariya excavation team: Dr.
Dodson, newly-minted Dr. Jen Smith, Dr. Ken Lacavora, Matt Lamanna and
myself (aka Patti Kane-Vanni), as well as some of Peter's other vert
paleo
grad students: Jerry Harris and Barbara Grandstaff and Paleo-artists Bob
Walters and Tess Kissinger. Unfortunately other committee members were
not
available for the presentation, but it was well-received as far I could
tell. The morphological data was wonderfully expanded from his initial
numbers from last year's presentation so I look forward an important
paper
from this work. (Please excuse me if I inadvertently left anyone out.)
So join me in congratulations First, to soon-to-be Dr. Josh on his
doctoral completion, Second, to his new position at Washington Univ.,
and
Third, we look forward to the October 7th 2002 U.S. release of "The Lost
Dinosaurs of Egypt"! (I'm the one in the back!)
Best of luck in the future Josh!
Patti
Patricia Kane-Vanni, Esq.
pkv1@erols.com or pkvanni@sas.upenn.edu
http://groups.msn.com/DinosaurandFossilDigs