The image is filled with rows of people wearing bright blue graduation caps (mortarboards) and matching gowns. The caps form a repeating geometric pattern across the entire scene. Many caps are plain blue, while others are decorated with colorful designs, messages, or embellishments, adding variation throughout the crowd.

🎓Our grads don’t just graduate—they shine! The Class of 2025 turned their achievements into wearable art with incredible cap designs full of personality, passion, and yes... plenty of glitter! ✨ Take a peek at their creativity, and we’re already excited to see #UBClassOf2026 cross that stage next! 👏 
📸 Douglas Levere

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"The chin evolved largely by accident and not through direct selection, but as an evolutionary byproduct resulting from direct selection on other parts of the skull."

Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel, professor in the Department of Anthropology, on the development of the human chin, which does not have an evolutionary advantage. She was quoted about her research in Smithsonian magazine.

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“I really appreciate the diversity of research that faculty and students in the Anthropology Department are conducting. It's great to hear about different projects happening locally and all over the world - one person may be studying mountain gorillas in Rwanda while another is researching the movement of ecological knowledge around the globe via the Transatlantic slave trade. Anthropological research is so varied and has so many opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.  ”
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