Reed's research uses community ecology of primates and mammals to understand biogeography, community structure, and the habitats of fossil hominins.

Schwartz is interested in the evolutionary history of primate and human growth, development, and life history as evidenced in fossilized tissues, in particular developing teeth.

Penkrot teaches human anatomy and physiology, and general biology. Her doctorate is in functional anatomy and evolution from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Pigg is a paleobotanist who studies fossil plants that are related to modern groups of conifers, ferns and woody hardwood trees. Her group studies the origin of plants of the temperate deciduous biome.

Taylor is a Faculty Research Associate in SESE and a Curriculum Developer for the Immersive Virtual Field Trips (iVFT) project at ETX. She also studies the evolution of early life from rocks in Arctic Norway and South Africa.

Upham is an eco-evolutionary biologist with core interests in how species ecologies have diversified through time and across the tree of life. He studies the phylogenetic ecology of wild mammals, especially desert rodents.

Haile-Selassie's research interest is understanding the paleobiology and paleoecology of early human ancestors based on the fossil record.