Duke Endowment Grant Strengthens Duke Lemur Center

Duke University has been awarded $4.4 million from The Duke Endowment for the Duke Lemur Center (DLC), including support for a newly created academic director position. Primatologist and Duke alumna Elizabeth Lonsdorf will join the DLC and the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology in this new role on Aug. 1.

The new position fills a need identified by an interdisciplinary faculty review committee last year.  Working with Executive Director Greg Dye, Lonsdorf will be responsible…