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6th Grade- Team Lemur-Ellis School: A Year of Learning thru Lemurs
Our Jumping Journey of Learning thru Lemurs While Integrating the Common Core Standards and Passion-Based Learning. March 12 — How do you interest 54 sixth-grade students in a year of learning? Not sitting and having information dumped into their heads, but TRUE, enthusiastic, engaged learning? Well, you LEMURIZE the curriculum, of course! Impetus Flashback to […]
Evening with the Experts-Daytime Edition- Saturday, February 21st – Conservation in the SAVA region of Madagascar
Join us for a daytime version of our Evening with the Experts Seminar Series! Bring your lunch, questions, and love for lemurs! Click here for more event details!
Remembering a star: Jovian, lemur host of Zoboomafoo, passes away
November, 11, 2014, Durham, NC — A quiet sadness spread over the Duke Lemur Center staff on Monday as news spread that Jovian, a much-loved Coquerel’s sifaka had died of kidney failure at the age of 20.5 years. Within the Lemur Center, Jovian was known as an exceptionally capable and caring father, having sired […]
Raising Cute Baby Lemurs to Save a Species
National Geographic, August 27, 2014 http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/140827-lemur-babies-vin
Summer intern collects poop and experience
August 12, 2014– The Duke Lemur Center offers unique opportunities for undergraduate students to participate in lemur husbandry, research and education during the summer. During their 10-week internships, students learn animal care or research methods and conduct their own independent research projects. DLC volunteer and writer, Mel Norris, followed research intern Melissa Chieffe as she collected […]
Matching gifts mean new set of wheels for SAVA Conservation in Madagascar
June 23, 2014 — Lemur researcher Erik Patel will be the first to tell you that driving in Madagascar is not for the faint of heart. Paved roads are rare. Street lights are nonexistent. Torrential rains turn dirt roads to solid mud for many months of the year. Bridges wash out, and just as quickly […]
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 […]
