Carolina Science Cafe | Primate Survival
June 3 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Growing up wild: The challenge of survival for young primates
Join us for our next installment of the Carolina Science Cafe, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center’s free, current science awareness program. For the August cafe, we will welcome Dr. Susan Alberts, The Robert F. Durden Professor of Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University.
Research in the Alberts Lab investigates the evolution of social behavior, particularly in mammals, with a specific focus on the social behavior, demography, life history, and behavioral endocrinology of wild primates. Their main study system is the baboon population in Amboseli, Kenya, one of the longest-running studies of wild primates in the world, ongoing since 1971.
Designed for adults, this program explores science topics making national and international headlines and offers the chance to meet the experts behind the headlines. The Carolina Science Cafe is hosted at Haw River Tab & Table in Carrboro on Tuesday, June 3rd, starting at 6:00 p.m. with light appetizers available for all attendees.
About the Speaker
Susan Alberts is Dean of Natural Sciences in Trinity College of Arts & Science at Duke University, and The Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor of Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology. She studies the behavior, ecology, physiology, and genetics of wild populations of large mammals, using longitudinal, individual-based data. She has spent 40 years studying wild baboons in Kenya, and she also studied the socioecology of African elephants for 10 years. She received her B.A. from Reed College, her Ph.D. from University of Chicago, and pursued postdoctoral research at the Harvard University Society of Fellows. She has been on the faculty at Duke University since 1998, supervising undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdoctoral researchers. She spends several months each year at her field site in Kenya, and has two children, Michele aged 27 and Teresa aged 21. She is a member of National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Carolina Science Cafe is produced by Morehead Planetarium and Science Center and sponsored by the UNC Chapter of Sigma Xi.
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