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RESEARCHER SPOTLIGHT: Tapping into Nature with Ehsan Dehghan-Niri

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 […]

Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur full body portrait
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RESEARCHER SPOTLIGHT: Ana Breit

Written by Ana Breit, Ph.D., Research Scientist at the Duke Lemur Center. Originally published in LEMURS Magazine: The “Reasons for Hope” Issue in February 2026. When people think of hibernation, they tend to picture animals in dens deep beneath a layer of snow, waiting out the winter. But this is just one example of what […]

A thumbnail of a video showing a veterinarian from Madagascar examining a ruffed lemur at the Duke Lemur Center's veterinary hospital. The veterinarian wears blue scrubs with DLC logo, a stethoscope, and gloves.
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VIDEO: Advancing Veterinary Science

Take a video tour of our dedicated lemur hospital, the Anna Borruel Codina Center for Lemur Medicine and Research! Made possible thanks to an $8M gift by an anonymous Duke alumnus whose family has a passion for lemurs and wildlife protection, the Borruel Center features cutting-edge surgery and intensive care suites, dedicated quarantine and recovery spaces, […]

A large, one-level brick building during an autumn afternoon, with red-leafed trees in the foreground.
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Stakeholder Update: January 2026

Read the Duke Lemur Center’s Stakeholder Update, sent to our donors on January 20, 2026. Questions? Contact Mary Paisley, DLC Development Director, at mary.paisley@duke.edu. 

a red ruffed lemur looks directly at the camera
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Annual Campaign and 2025 Highlights

Read the Duke Lemur Center Director’s annual appeal message and review our notable achievements for 2025! Please consider making a donation in support of our work and impact for the coming year and beyond! Questions? Please contact Mary Paisley, DLC Development Director, at mary.paisley@duke.edu. 

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How Lemurs Are Laying the Groundwork for Interstellar Travel

After astronauts wake up from hibernation, will they still be able to drive the spacecraft? Duke researchers are studying lemurs to find out. By Susan Miller. Originally published in DukeTODAY on October 1, 2025. Read the original here. From fairy tales – such as Sleeping Beauty and Rip Van Winkle – to science fiction films, […]

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RESEARCHER SPOTLIGHT: Tristan Franzetti

Posted September 2, 2025. Tristan is a Ph.D. candidate in Biology at Duke University. Research Focus: Mechanisms of niche partitioning in sympatric nocturnal lemurs In the forests of Madagascar, several species of small, nocturnal lemurs live side by side. They’re similar in size and habits, yet somehow they managed to evolve into separate species and […]

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RESEARCHER SPOTLIGHT: Antonin Andriamahaihavana

Written by Antonin Andriamahaihavana, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Antananarivo. Originally published in LEMURS Magazine: The “Where” Issue in February 2025. His partnership with the DLC I obtained my master’s degree in Animal Conservation Biology at the Mention Zoologie et Biodiversité Animale (MZBA), University of Antananarivo, in 2020. My research focused on the ecology […]

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