Spring 2023 highlights

Looking back at our achievements this semester, here are some of the highlights ... now we're off to fieldwork

Awards

• Anaid and Nancia were awarded research grants from The Rufford Foundation for their PhD projects in Mexico and Madagascar, respectively
• Kat and Vero were selected as Rocca fellows by the Center for African Studies
• Rindra was awarded a Primate Action Fund grant
• Vero was selected as an International Peace Scholar by the Philanthropic Educational Organization, and received Outstanding GSI Award for her excellent work as a graduate student instructor in IB.

Varecia variegata editorum in Ranomafana National Park. Photo by Onja Razafindratsima

Publications

​Onja and colleagues reviewed the importance of regenerating forests for primates in anthropogenic landscapes in this book chapter

Others

• Kat passed her Qualifying Exam in April and is now a doctoral candidate
• Diary Randriamora joined our group as a mentee through the National Geographic Society STEM Field Assistant Program
• Rindra Nantenaina, a PhD student at the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar spent five weeks as a Visiting Student in the lab in Berkeley. 

Representative members and friends of the lab, Spring 2023. From left to right: Asher, Mamy-Fy Rakotondrainibe, Anaid Cardenas Navarrete, Kat Culbertson, Rindra Nantenaina, Jade Tonos, Ella Matsuda, Onja Razafindratsima, Kova