BINGHAMTON, NY – Patricia Chapple Wright, distinguished service professor of anthropology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York, will present "Lemurs Lost: Past, Present and Future of Madagascar" at 5 p.m. Monday, March 16, in Room G-008 of the Academic A building, on campus. This event is free and open to the public.

Wright has made major contributions in the biology, ecology, conservation and behavior of living primates. She discovered a new species of lemur, Hapalemur aureus, in 1987 and helped establish Madagascar’s Ranomafana National Park to protect it. Her research concerns focus on behavior, senescence, parasitology, predation, rainforest ecology, climate change and conservation studies of Malagasy lemurs.

Her work has been featured in the film Me and Isaac Newton, directed by Michael Apted (1999), and IMAX’s Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D, directed by David Douglas (2014). In 2013, Wright was elected to the American Philosophical Society. The Government of Madagascar has honored Wright with the "Knight of the National Order" in 1995, the "Officier Medal" in 2003 and the "Commandeur Medal" in 2012, making her the only foreigner to receive all three honors.

This discussion is sponsored by the Binghamton University Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS). 

For more information, e-mail EvoS@binghamton.edu or visit http://bit.ly/1HEfnTl.