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Species: Cebus apella
Common name: tufted capuchin
Photo: Kevin Schafer

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Jacobsen Conservation Award Announced

A scientist at Great Ape Trust of Iowa, and one of the world's leading experts on orangutans and their habitat, has been honored with a prestigious conservation award by the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. Dr. Serge Wich is the 2008 recipient of the Lawrence Jacobsen Conservation Research Award, which supports studies in applied conservation biology that protect nonhuman primates in their habitat. Wich has been awarded a $5,000 grant to help fund Sumatran orangutan research by students from Universitas Nasional in Jakarta and Universitas Syiah Kualah in Banda Aceh.

For more information, see:
http://www.greatapetrust.org/media/releases/2008/nr_76a08.php

New Factsheets -- Gray Langur & Proboscis Monkey

Recently added primate factsheets include:

• Nasalis larvatus (proboscis monkey)
• Semnopithecus (gray langurs)
• Microcebus (mouse lemurs)
• Tarsius (tarsiers)
• Callimico goeldii (Goeldi's monkey)

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Welcome To Our New AV Librarian

Ryan Engel joined the staff of the Lawrence Jacobsen Library at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center as the new Special Collections Librarian on September 2.  He will be taking charge of the library's audiovisual collection and aiding in the development of new web resources, especially in the area of multimedia content (images, audio and video).

Ryan received his MLS from the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies in 2004.  Although a Wisconsin native, he spent the last three years as a news librarian at CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta.

Ryan can be reached at rengel@primate.wisc.edu.