Midwest Primate Interest Group (MPIG) is a great community and student-focused annual conference of primatologists based mostly in the Midwestern United States. This year, members of the Bryer lab and Strier lab from UW–Madison Anthropology attended the conference, which included Wisconsin National Primate Research Center scientist emerita Dr. Toni Zeigler‘s keynote!

UW–Madison Wittig Postdoctoral Fellow in Feministy Biology Dr. Alexandra Kralick (co-advised by Dr. Bryer and Dr. Strier) presented her new paper in American Journal of Biological Anthropology “No More Sneaking Around: The Changing Terminology of Orangutan Male Reproductive Strategies.”

UW–Madison cohort of primatologists visit University of Notre Dame for MPIG 2026: (left to right) UW–Madison undergraduate student Griffyn Jones, UW–Madison PhD student Sophia Mummert, University of Salford Manchester PhD student and visiting researcher at UW–Madison Tommy Burch, UW–Madison PhD student Cole Mitsdarfer, UW–Madison PhD student Maddie Thall, UW–Madison PhD student Catherine Byun, and Wittig Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Alexandra Kralick.

Dr. Alexandra Kralick presents at MPIG 2026 on her new paper about changing understanding of and terminology related to unflanged male orangutans.