The Primate Nutrition Lab is welcoming a new PhD student, Cole Mitsdarfer, this fall! Cole is interested in behavioral ecology and behavioral plasticity of group living primates, focusing on the impacts of invasive and anthropogenic foods. Previously, he interned at the Lincoln Park Zoo’s Fisher Center and Animal Welfare Science Program studying captive animal welfare, …
University of Wisconsin-Madison senior and Wildlife Ecology and Anthropology double major Isabelle Anderson presented a poster at the UW Undergraduate Symposium in April 2026 on her summer 2025 field project in South Africa and Wildlife Ecology Capstone! She examined the extent of indigenous versus non-indigenous plant foods in the baboon diet in Nature’s Valley, South …
University of Wisconsin-Madison second-year undergraduate Elana Berghoff (Nutritional Sciences major) presented at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) Committee on Diversity (COD) Undergraduate Symposium in Denver, Colorado, in March 2026! She presented a poster on preliminary results on L’Hoest’s monkey (Allochrocebus lhoesti) socioecology at Kanyawara site in Kibale National Park. Specifically she presented a …
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 …
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!