NSF website features SURE alumnus Brian Hare

See http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117528&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click for a feature on Brian Hare, SURE fellow circa mid 1990's and current faculty member in the anthropology department at Duke University.

This item highlight's Brian's work with bonobos.

Chinar Sanghvi wins grand prize at the Herty Undergraduate Research Symposium

Dr. Cora MacBeth writes with this fabulous update on one of her SURE 09 fellows:

Chinar Sanghvi, an undergraduate researcher in my lab, recently won the grand prize at the Herty Undergraduate Research Symposium. This is an annual symposium sponsored by the American Chemical Society. This is a pretty competitive event with students from 14 area colleges and universities presenting.  Chinar started as an Oxford student and was able to continue her project in my lab because of the funding provided by the SURE program.  I just wanted to say thanks to each of you for all of the work you do to keep these programs running.  Chinar is an outstanding student and has certainly benefited from these opportunities.

Congratulations, Chinar and Dr. MacBeth! 

Emory & SURE alumni Brian Hare on Time.com

This article on dog intelligence features Dr. Brian Hare, Emory alumni and former SURE fellow.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1921614,00.html

Brian's interest in dog intelligence began when he was an undergraduate here at Emory. He is now an assistant professor at Duke University. 

The biggest challenge to the new experiments, Hare says, will be not the giant pack of dogs he'll be studying but their anxious owners. "When a puppy does badly, people get upset," says Hare. "You have to emphasize that this is not the SATs."