News

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Congratulations to grad student Ronnie Steinitz! This award funds her dissertation research on red-tailed monkey energetics.

(Aug 4, 2022)

The lab has two new seed grants: to study gastrointestinal parasite infection and energetics; and to launch a collaboration to digitize 50 years of behavioral data on 5 monkey species in Kibale National Park.

(July 1, 2022)

We are hiring interns for the summer -  applicants should be UCSB undergrads, Anthro/Social Science majors, and members of an under-represented minority. 

Apply here. 

(May 13, 2022)

Undergrad Camilla Dopulos wins first place in the poster competition at the 

2022 California Workshop in Evolutionary Social Sciences (C-WESS). 

(May 8, 2022)

A four-day training workshop to assay metabolic biomarkers and parasites in monkey urine and feces. 

Watch the video here.

(Apr 29 - May 1, 2022)

Undergraduate Kat Mackay wins award for Best Poster Presentation at the 2022 California Geographical Society meeting. 

(Apr 30, 2022)

Michelle gives a public lecture for the Primate Conversations seminar series hosted by the University of Oxford. Watch the video here.

(Apr 26, 2022)

New article identifies competitive exclusion from mangabeys as the primary constraint on blue monkey populations. 

(Apr 15, 2022) [abstract]

(award # 2148760) Michelle has a new research grant to document infrasonic communication in L'Hoesti monkeys. 

(Apr 7, 2022)

Michelle & Ronnie publish an analysis of the energetics of intergroup conflict. 

(Apr 6, 2022) [abstract]

Congratulations to Hannah Frogge on her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! 

(Apr 4, 2022)

(award # 2127253) Michelle has a new grant to examine the energetic ramifications of competitive exclusion among primates.

(Sep 2021)