Search Our Site

Students

Share
Follow Us

NEW Mobile Genetics Laboratory: Sample analysis and student training in Madagascar

By Lydia Greene, DLC researcher and Duke Ph.D. candidate; and Marina Blanco, Ph.D., DLC-SAVA Conservation Coordinator. Published July 27, 2018. Since the advent of the genetics revolution, researchers have flocked to Madagascar to collect lemur samples for sequencing. Such analyses can provide a wealth of information for empiricists, by asking questions like “How did lemurs […]

How SAS Helped Save a Baby Lemur’s Life

By Colin Warren-Hicks for the Durham Herald-Sun View the original article HERE. DURHAM, N.C. – SAS saved a baby lemur. Well – to clarify – SAS data management programing played a major part in helping to save the life of a rare but ailing newborn aye-aye lemur named Agatha. That’s what Anne-Lindsay Beall, editor of the Customer […]

How A Summer of Lemurs and Analytics Helped Me Find My Voice

By Briana Ullman, Corporate Creative Intern at SAS and student at NC State University RALEIGH, N.C. — Never in my life could I have imagined myself talking about data analysis just inches away from a lemur – and as a part of my job. And honestly, this was only one of the many incredible things that have happened […]

Fossils in the classroom

June 17, 2014 — Dr. Gregg Gunnell and Dr Douglas Boyer recently taught a class in primate and human evolution to a group of students from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). Tour guide Scott Hennes was one of the students in this class and tells us what it was like to study fossils: What […]