CommUniversity Day returns – we’re hooked on this event!
September 28, 2024
We once again participated in SBU’s CommUniversity Day! Such a fun event to share our love of primates with our broader Long Island community. If you missed us this year, be sure to consider coming in Fall 2025! Special thanks to Alex Chege, Emily Jefferson, and Lilly Garofano!
Proud partners with SBU’s Institute for STEM Education
March 2024
Years in the making, we were over the moon to host two back-to-back after school workshop series in partnership with SBU’s Institute for STEM Education. Working with an amazing group of nearly 30 area high school students, we got outdoors to learn some basic tools and equipment related to what our lab studies. Activities included geocaching around SBU’s campus, designing tracking collars, and learning how to observe wildlife with field guides and binoculars. We are deeply indebted to both NSF and The Leakey Foundation for making this workshop series possible.
CommUniversity Day is back
October 14, 2023
Despite the weather forcing us to stay indoors in SBU’s Wang Center, the Markham Lab had a blast hosting a table at CommUniversity Day. This is an event we love and we’re thrilled to see its return after the pandemic limited the opportunity to join with neighbors for several years. Special thanks to Alex Chege, Emily Jefferson, Katherine Kling, and Jake Butkevich!
Lunch Break Science with The Leakey Foundation
October 22, 2020 at 2pm Eastern Time
Dr. Markham was delighted to participate in a live, virtual conversation about research in the Markham Lab and Shutterbug Science on Lunch Break Science with Arielle Johnson!
Working with SBU’s Institute for STEM Education
July 17, 2019
Thanks to funding from NSF and The Leakey Foundation, we are thrilled to be developing a new after-school program in partnership with SBU’s Institute for STEM Education! I-STEM is an interdisciplinary education center that provides a wide range of academic year and summer programs for K-12 students and teachers. Our new 3-week program will reflect the broad topics of on-going research in the Markham Lab with activities and lessons designed to teach middle-schoolers about competition (contest vs. scramble), group living, energy intake and expenditure, and behavioral animal sampling.
First visit to Mount Elementary
May 16, 2019
We had so much fun learning about food chains and food webs with second graders at Mount Elementary! Extra thanks to all the students who brought their “stuffies” along to learn about animal behavior.
Return to Murphy Junior High
April 15-16, 2019
We love visiting the young scientists at Murphy Junior High! For the third year in a row, we had a chance to visit their classrooms and talk with them about behavioral ecology. Thanks for the great questions and interest in what we do!
Another Stony Brook University’s CommUniversity Day
September 22, 2018
We were thrilled to support SBU’s second annual CommUniversity Day! Kids in our community had a chance to learn about how chimpanzees fish for termites and how researchers use blow-guns to dart baboons from SBU undergraduate and graduate students. Special thanks to Jack Winans, Lisa Prowant, Emily Jefferson, and Tom Rigby for your time and energy!
Bayport/Blue Point School District’s Gifted Students Program visits Stony Brook University
March 24, 2018
Special thanks to Lisa Prowant for giving a wonderful presentation to visiting 4th graders based off of her dissertation research on eastern box turtles. Lisa is a PhD candidate in the Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Stony Brook University. Thanks also to Joan Dickinson for letting us know about this fantastic event!
Local news story!
February 22, 2018
Dan Dunaief with TBR News Media wrote an article about ongoing research and outreach activities in the lab, including our involvement with Murphy Junior Highschool. Check out the article here!
Stony Brook University’s CommUniversity Day
September 23, 2017
We had gorgeous weather and met so many wonderful families at SBU’s first annual CommUniversity Day! Our kid-focused activities taught junior scientists how to fish for termites like a chimpanzee and how to use a blow-gun to dart a baboon. Special thanks to SBU undergrads Jessica Rivera, Sarah Stalerman, and Layne Mapes for making the day a success!
Recognition for our work at SBU’s College of Arts and Sciences Awards and Recognition Ceremony
April 5, 2017
We were thrilled to receive one of this year’s awards for community outreach!
Final school visit with 7th graders at Murphy Junior High
October 20, 2016
We had a wonderful time working with the 7th graders at Murphy Junior High this Fall. Thanks to the students, teachers, and interns who made this project possible and provided some much needed feedback. Looking forward to working with you again next year!
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