2026-06-16: Armita was selected as one of 28 members of Scientific American's inaugural class of Young American Scientists and is profiled in the digital and print issues of the magazine.

2026-05-12: Our special issue of the Journal of Anatomy (co-edited by Virginia Abdala & Armita) on the Evolution of Joints in Vertebrates is out now.

2026-04-19: Armita gave an invited symposium talk at the Anatomy Connected Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2026-04-12: Congratulations to Joanna for receiving a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!

2026-03-09: The results are in – congratulations to Miranda for winning the D. Dwight Davis Award for best student talk in the Division of Vertebrate Morphology!

2026-02-09: Armita gave a seminar in the Biological Sciences Department/Department of Biomedical Sciences talk series, Ohio University.

2026-01-26: Armita made a quick visit to and gave a seminar at the Structure & Motion Lab, Royal Veterinary College.

2026-01-07: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. Armita received the Carl Gans Young Investigator Award and delivered a plenary lecture. Miranda gave a stellar talk about her dissertation research on snake intervertebral joints in the Division of Vertebrate Morphology Best Student Presentation competition.