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Not your typical summer break: Students spend the summer in Madagascar with Duke Engage

May 22, 2014 – Duke students Faye Goodwin and Kyle Smith, both rising juniors, will spend the next two months studying bamboo lemurs in Madagascar as part of a service learning project funded by Duke Engage. Read Faye’s first accounts of their adventures in the following posts:   Week 0 May 16, Departure Day: I’m […]



Meet the new lemur babies and their moms

May 8, 2014 — Just in time for Mother’s Day, visitors to the Duke Lemur Center can see the new baby lemurs and their moms, many of whom are now making their first public appearances. Infants at the Duke Lemur Center are given an opportunity to bond behind the scenes before going on public display. […]



Student designers showcase their lemur-inspired art

April 29, 2014 — With finals fast approaching, we wanted to thank the dozens of undergraduates at Duke and elsewhere who contributed their smarts to the Duke Lemur Center this semester. Biology and anthropology students weren’t the only ones to join us. In today’s post, designer and multimedia specialist Michael Faber describes a lemur-inspired assignment […]



Spring is here: don’t miss your chance to see lemurs frolicking in the forest

April 25, 2014 — For the next few months, visitors will have a unique opportunity to get up close with some of the 80 lemurs and seven species that are now frolicking in the forest. In today’s post, we asked Lemur Center volunteer and Duke undergraduate Faye Goodwin what to expect during the spring tour […]