Anthropology Colloquia: Dr. Amy Lu

the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, the UNM Department of Anthropology, and the Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) invites the public to the upcoming talk presented by the Department Dr. Amy Lu Male Takeovers Accelerate Female Maturation and Weaning in Wild Geladas on Friday, October 1 at 2 pm as part of the 2021 Fall Anthropology Colloquia Speaker Series.  You can access the talk here.  The passcode is 305369

Dr. Amy Lu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook University. Her research primarily focuses on female reproductive strategies and offspring development, focusing on wild primates. She co-directs the Simien Mountains Gelada Project, where her current NSF-funded research explores how variable weaning strategies influence offspring growth and immunity in wild geladas. She graduated from the Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Physical Anthropology at Stony Brook University in 2009, spent 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois, and joined the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook University in 2014.

Talks from this year's series are available on our You Tube for your viewing.

Upcoming talks include: