A group of students in Miami have set out to help save the gorillas of central Africa – and with your help, they’ll do it. They’re asking everyone to drop off their old cell phones that are no longer in use to OE 246 or OE 167 at Modesto A. [...]
Panther Pause: Monkeys, racecars and hookah
By Sissi Aguila
06/22/2012
Betsy Soler ’10, FIU’s social media community manager, has all the latest Panther news. Each week, she will feature a range of stories from research to campus events in a video blog. So hit the pause button on studying and check out what these Panthers have been up to! [...]
Students offered rare glimpse into world of owl monkeys
By Karen Cochrane
06/15/2012
The DuMond Conservancy for Primates and Tropical Forests in South Dade is not your typical classroom. Monkey habitats blend in seamlessly among the 12 hectares (30 acres) of protected native woodland that comprise the conservancy and adjacent Monkey Jungle grounds. It’s a setting unlike any other for FIU researchers and [...]
FIU primatologist to talk monkey business, chasing dreams
By Evelyn Perez
03/23/2012
Sian Evans, FIU professor and managing director of the DuMond Conservancy, will present “Anthropoid Adventures” Tuesday, March 27 at the Luna Star Café in North Miami. It is scheduled for 7 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Evans teaches primate biology in the Department of Biological Sciences, an [...]
Research with monkeys may yield solutions to conservation issues
By Karen Cochrane
02/02/2012
She’s still an undergraduate, but Elizabeth Tapanes, a biological sciences major in the School of Environment, Arts and Society, already has five years of research experience under her belt with the DuMond Conservancy for Primates and Tropical Forests. Her research with owl monkeys, a species common in Central and South [...]
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