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2014 | Jessica Lynch Alfaro, et.al – Capuchin Monkey Research Priorities and Urgent Issues

ISG Associate Director, Jessica Lynch-Alfaro, recently published “Capuchin Monkey Research Priorities and Urgent Issues” in the American Journal of Primatology. Abstract: The “Capuchin research community roundtable: working together towards a comparative…

2014 | Jessica Lynch Alfaro, et.al – Activity Budget, Diet, and Habitat Use in the Critically Endangered Ka'apor Capuchin Monkey (Cebus Kaapori) in Pará State, Brazil: A Preliminary Comparison to Other Capuchin Monkeys

ISG Associate Director, Jessica Lynch-Alfaro, recently published “Activity Budget, Diet, and Habitat Use in the Critically Endangered Ka’apor Capuchin Monkey (Cebus Kaapori) in Pará State, Brazil: A Preliminary Comparison to Other…

Student Wins Sloan Award for Screenplay Exploring Muscular Dystrophy

Laura Alsum is a graduate student in screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She is also the 2014 recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Student…

Poverty 'Ages' Genes of Young Children Study Shows

The stress of growing up in a poor and unstable household affects children as young as 9 years old on a genetic level, shortening a portion of their chromosomes that…

2014 | Christopher Kelty + Aaron Panofsky – Disentangling Public Participation in Science and Biomedicine

ISG faculty, Dr. Christopher Kelty and Dr. Aaron Panofsky, have published a paper titled “Disentangling Public Participation In Science and Biomedicine” in Genome Medicine. ABSTRACT: Background This article provides a framework for disentangling…

Hummingbird Evolution Is Booming

Hummingbirds took just 22 million years to diversify from a single common ancestor into 338 tiny, colorful species. And they have not finished yet. Evolutionary biologist Jim McGuire of the…