Josh Laird successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled "Ordovician trilobite communities: End-Ordovician mass extinction beta diversity collapse, habitat occupancy dynamics, and insights from the Eleanor River Formation (Floian) fauna of Canada," on Friday, July 17, 2026. Congratulations, Josh!

Ethan Bley successfully defended his MS thesis, "Middle and Upper Ordovician encrinurid trilobites from the Maquoketa Formation (Katian) of Iowa and the Table Cove Formation (Darriwilian) of Newfoundland," on April 17th, 2026. Congratulations Ethan!