University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: September 2025

Members of Nature’s Valley Baboon Project team present at Midwest Primate Interest Group Conference 2025

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Undergraduate students Isabelle Anderson (UW-Madison) and Gabrielle Mostow (Harvard University) presented posters at the Midwest Primate Interest Group meeting in Chicago in September 2025! Both students spent their summer in Nature’s Valley, South Africa, studying wild chacma baboons as part of the Nature’s Valley Baboon Project (NVBP). Isabelle’s project examined the contribution of indigenous versus …

Welcome to Wittig Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Biology Dr. Alexandra Kralick!

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Welcome to another affiliate of the primatology research groups here in the Anthropology department at UW-Madison, Dr. Alexandra Kralick! She is joining UW-Madison as a Wittig Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Biology co-advised by faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies and faculty in Anthropology (Drs. Strier and Bryer). Dr. Kralick describes herself as “a biological anthropologist …

Welcome to PhD student Sophia Mummert!

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Sophia Mummert graduated from Temple University and is a first year PhD student in Anthropology with research interests in primate behavioral ecology, focusing on nutrition and energetic trade-offs. This fall she will be TAing Anthro 105 Principles in Biological Anthropology and getting started in the Primate Nutrition Lab!

Nature’s Valley Baboon Project presented at IPS Madagascar!

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In July 2025, the Nature’s Valley Baboon Project, co-directed by Dr. Margaret Bryer, Dr. Kris Sabbi and Dr. Hendri Coetzee, presented at the 30th Congress of the International Primatological Society in Antananarivo, Madagascar! Multiple members of the baboon team presented two posters and discussed with researchers from around the world Nature’s Valley baboon ranging patterns …