By Abby Flyer, M.A., Communications and Education Specialist. Originally published in LEMURS Magazine: The “Where” Issue in February 2025. Aracus was a stud in the fall of 2003. He lived in one of the Duke Lemur Center’s free-ranging forest habitats in a troop with six other ring-tailed lemurs, three of whom were breeding females. At 12 […]
By Matthew Burkhart, Communications and Education Assistant, Undergraduate, North Carolina State University. With Ehsan Dehghan-Niri, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks, Arizona State University. Originally published in LEMURS Magazine: Reasons for Hope in February 2026. Non-destructive testing (NDT) is a technique for evaluating the structural integrity of a component or product without impairing […]
By Abby Flyer, M.A., Communications and Education Specialist. Originally published in LEMURS Magazine: Reasons for Hope in February 2026. When caring for the world’s most endangered group of mammals, no cure is “one size fits all.” Between 55 and 25 million years ago, the ancestor of aye-ayes and the ancestor of all other lemurs were […]
By Matthew Burkhart, Communications and Education Assistant, Undergraduate, North Carolina State University. With Martin Kratt, Duke ‘89. Originally published in LEMURS Magazine: Reasons for Hope in February 2026. Few animals have inspired children and conservationists alike as profoundly as Jovian, the Coquerel’s sifaka who brought primate conservation into living rooms around the world as the […]
Published on April 7, 2026. The DLC was featured in a new Short Doc in The Chronicle, Duke’s student-run media organization! The video features DLC Communications & Education Specialist Abby Flyer (Duke ’21) and Duke senior Dhruv Rungta, who explain what makes the DLC so special. You can learn more about the customized care of […]
Read the Duke Lemur Center’s Stakeholder Update, sent to our donors on March 26, 2026. Questions? Contact Mary Paisley, DLC Development Director, at mary.paisley@duke.edu.
Posted March 9, 2026. In Madagascar and other low-income countries, charcoal and firewood are still the dominant cooking fuels. But traditional charcoal has major drawbacks: Producing traditional charcoal involves cutting trees, a significant cause of deforestation. For millions of women cooking daily meals for their families, exposure to smoke from dirty fuel causes respiratory disease. […]
By Andrea Tejada, 2022 Communications Intern, and DLC Staff Originally published in January 2023 in “The Women’s Issue” of the DLC annual magazine. The fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) have evolved in many ways over time, and although many of the most prominent early leaders in these fields were men, today more […]
