Research and Training in Evolutionary Primatology

9602234该奖项重申了对纽约市五个机构的进化灵长类动物学多机构研究培训小组的支持。该教职团队包括来自纽约市立大学、哥伦比亚大学、纽约大学、美国自然历史博物馆和野生动物保护协会的30名进化、种群和行为生物学家。授予的资金将为研究生提供津贴，支付受训人员研究的部分费用，包括实地工作，并将帮助支持一年一度的学术讨论会。此外，资金将用于购买供受训人员使用的专门研究设备，并从其他研究和学术机构邀请调查人员举办研究研讨会，在某些情况下，还用于参加较长期的培训活动。在最初的支持期间，参与的学术机构开发和完善了一个独特的研究生课程，允许他们的学生在五个成员机构中的任何一个学习课程和从事研究。进化灵长类动物学的理论、方法和经验数据来自生物科学、人类学和地质学的许多领域。参与学院的研究项目从形态学、古生物学、系统学、分子和种群遗传学、行为学、生态学和保护生物学的角度对人类和非人类灵长类动物进行了研究。因此，该小组提供的培训将使学生具备在这一具有挑战性和趣味性的领域进行综合学习所需的广泛背景。***

9602234 This award renews support for a multi-institutional Research Training Group in Evolutionary Primatology at five institutions in New York City. The faculty group includes 30 evolutionary, population and behavioral biologists at the City University of New York, Columbia University, New York University, the American Museum of Natural History and the Wildlife Conservation Society. The funds awarded will provide stipends for graduate students, will defray part of the cost of the trainees' research, including field work and will help support an annual colloqium. In addition, funds will be used to purchase specialized research equipment to be used by trainees and to bring investigators from other research and academic institutions to give research seminars and in some cases, to participate in longer term training activities. During the original period of support, the participating academic institutions have developed and refined a unique graduate program that allows their students to take courses and pursue research at any of the five member institutions. Evolutionary primatology draws its theory, methods and empirical data from many areas within the biological sciences, anthropology, and geology. The research programs of the participating faculty focus on human and non-human primates from the perspectives of morphology, paleontology, systematics, molecular and population genetics, behavior, ecology, and conservation biology. Thus the training provided by this group will equip students with the broad background necessary for integrative studies in this challenging and interesting area. ***