Professor of Anthropology, Biology, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Cheryl Knott has been awarded a five-year grant of $499,978 from the US Fish and Wildlife Service for her conservation research on wild orangutans in Borneo. Over the next 5 years her research team, including BU graduate students, post-docs and undergraduates will be applying new technological tools to assess orangutan behavioral and physiological adaptations in anthropogenically-altered forests compared to primary rainforest.
Professor Knott has also been named the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar at Yale University where she will be on leave for the Fall semester of 2022. The Bass Visiting Environmental Scholars Program brings premier scholars dealing with the study of the environment, past or present, to present seminars, interact with faculty, students, and research groups, and participate in Yale’s academic community.