Research and Training in Evolutionary Primatology

9602234该奖项再次支持纽约市五个机构的进化灵长类学多机构研究培训小组。教师小组包括30名来自纽约市立大学、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进化、人口和行为生物学家。授予的资金将为研究生提供津贴，将支付受训者研究的部分费用，包括实地工作，并将帮助支持年度研讨会。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。在最初的支持期间，参与的学术机构已经开发和完善了一个独特的研究生项目，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。＊＊＊

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. ***