Two Graduate Center Anthropology Students Win Fulbrights
Evan Mann and Carly Batist
Two Graduate Center students in the Anthropology program won 2021–2022 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants.
Ph.D. candidate
Ph.D. student
Two Graduate Center Anthropology Students Win Fulbrights
Evan Mann and Carly Batist
Two Graduate Center students in the Anthropology program won 2021–2022 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants.
Ph.D. candidate
Ph.D. student
Learning to ‘Speak Lemur’: Fulbright Fellow Carly Batist Will Go to Madagascar to Study and Help Protect a Critically Endangered Species
Carly Batist and a black-and-white ruffed lemur (Photos courtesy of Batist)
By Lida Tunesi
Ph.D. candidate
Carly Batist (Anthropology (Biological)) received a 2021–2022 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant to research the vocalizations of black-and-white ruffed lemurs in Madagascar.
Or, as she told The Graduate Center in an interview, “I’m essentially trying to speak lemur.”
With her adviser Professor
Andrea Baden (GC/Hunter, Anthropology, Biology) Batist investigates how the lemurs’ calls facilitate their social and reproductive strategies. Some of this work takes place at the Centre ValBio research station in Madagascar, which Graduate Center alumna Patricia Chapple Wright (Ph.D. ’85) helped establish in 2002.
Lemurs and Leaf Bugs, ‘Greening’ Neighborhoods and Green Energy: 11 Inspiring Graduate Center Students and Professors to Read About on Earth Day
Lemurs and Leaf Bugs, ‘Greening’ Neighborhoods and Green Energy: 11 Inspiring Graduate Center Studen
Even in this difficult last year, Graduate Center professors and students have been hard at work, researching the effects of climate change and investigating ways to protect animals and the environment:
3. Orchid researcher
Simon Verlynde, a Ph.D. student in the Plant Sciences subprogram of The Graduate Center’s Biology program, has helped to asses the extinction risk of the flowers in their native habitats and can tell you how to make your orchid re-bloom.