We are honored to announce that Dr. Robert W. Sussman, Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Environmental Sciences at Washington University, St. Louis. and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is the recipient of the MidWest Primate Interest Group 2009 Distinguished Primatologist Award.

We congratulate Dr. Sussman on receiving this prestigious award and for his leading role in mentoring and inspiring a new generation of field primatologists and encouraging students and colleagues alike to advance our science by questioning, rethinking, and challenging theories and assumptions of primate origins, socioecology, foraging strategies, mating systems, human nature, and the evolution of cooperative behavior.

 

We are honored to announce that Dr. Alejandro Estrada, Senior Research Scientist and Head of the Laboratory of Primatology, Los Tuxtlas Field Research Station, member of the Faculty of the Instituo de Biologia, Universidad Nacional AutOnoma de Mexico, and founder and former President of the Mexican Primatological Society is the recipient of the MidWest Primate Interest Group 2008 Distinguished Primatologist Award.

We congratulate Dr. Estrada on receiving this prestigious award and for his important contributions to tropical ecology, primatology, and rainforest conservation. Dr. Estrada's Distinguished Primatologist presentation at MPIG was titled “"Social aspects of primate conservation: population, poverty, globalization and sustainable use of the land".