Research Training Group in Evolutionary Primatology

该奖项为建立一个多机构的灵长类进化研究培训小组提供资金。教师小组包括20名进化和行为生物学家，他们来自纽约市的五个机构：美国自然历史博物馆、纽约市立大学、哥伦比亚大学、纽约大学和纽约动物学会。奖学金将用于资助研究生和博士后研修生，并支付部分研修生的研究费用。此外，经费将用于购买专门的研究设备，供受训者使用，并从其他研究和学术机构请来调查人员举办研究讨论会，在某些情况下参加较长期的培训活动。进化灵长类学从生物科学、人类学和地质学的许多领域汲取理论、方法和经验数据。参与的教师的研究项目从形态学、古生物学、系统学、分子和群体遗传学、行为学、生态学和保护生物学的角度关注人类和非人类灵长类动物。因此，该小组提供的培训将使学生具备在这个具有挑战性和有趣的领域进行综合研究所需的广泛背景。

This award provides funds to establish a multi-institutional Research Training Group in Evolutionary Primatology. The faculty group includes 20 evolutionary and behavioral biologists at five institutions in New York City: the American Museum of Natural History, City University of New York, Columbia University, New York University and The New York Zoological Society. The funds awarded will provide stipends for graduate students and postdoctoral trainees, and will defray part of the cost of the trainees' research. 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. 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.