Monday April 10 at 5:30pm in Sullivan 201

Reception to Follow

        Primatologist and Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University, Patricia Wright is the founder of Centre ValBio research station at Ranomafana National Park, where work is done to protect Madagascar’s unique and biologically diverse ecosystems.  She has made major contributions in the biology, ecology, conservation and behavior of living primates, especially the Malagasy lemurs.  In 2014 she was awarded the Indianapolis Prize, the world’s leading award for animal conservation.

        A member of the American Philosophical Society, she has received a MacArthur fellowship, the Hauptman-Woodward Pioneers of Science Award, and the Distinguished Primatologist Award of the American Society of Primatologists.  Her books include Madagascar:  Forests of Our Ancestors; High Moon over the Amazon:  My Quest to Understand the Monkeys of the Night; and For the Love of Lemurs:  My Life in the Wilds of Madagascar.  The 3D IMAX film, Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, features her work.

Sponsored by: Phi Beta Kappa, UNCG’s College of Arts and Sciences, UNCG's Departments of Anthropology, of Geography, and of Biology, and UNCG's Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program.

For questions and disability accommodations: robert.anemone@uncg.edu