Events

Natalie Robinson presents poster at AABA meeting

Natalie Robinson currently a PhD student in Anthropology at Rutger’s University, presented a poster at the AABA meeting in Baltimore on “Environmental Education Expeditions Increase Student Knowledge and Positive Attitudes Toward Orangutan Conservation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia”.

Faye Harwell presents at the AABA meeting

Faye Harwell, PhD alum and current Visiting Assistant Professor at BU presented a talk at the AABA meeting on “Sex Differences in Estimated Lean Body Mass of Captive and Wild Orangutans” which highlights some of her findings on orangutan muscle mass, part of her dissertation work.

Amy Scott presents at the AABA meeting

Amy Scott, current post-doc and BU alum, presented a poster at the AABA meeting in Baltimore on “Historic urine samples as a source of host genomic DNA from wild primates” that showed how she has been able to extract DNA from decades old orangutan urine samples.

Melissa Zarate wins the “Outstanding presentation award for exemplary student research” for her presentation at the AABA

Melissa Zarate won the “Outstanding presentation award for exemplary student research” for her presentation “A new reference mitochondrial genome for the yellow-tailed woolly monkey and implications for altitude adaptation” at the American Association of Biological Anthropology meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. Read a blog post about the award and Melissa’s research here.