“As an undergraduate at Miami, Bill McGrew and Linda Marchant were wonderful mentors to me and taught me so much about primates and how to study them.Throughout graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis, I spent over two years living and carrying out primatology research abroad, mainly in Costa Rica.I now am a study abroad program coordinator for programs in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the Caribbean at The University of Kansas, and I enjoy being able to advise students on their study abroad experiences.I am also an adjunct research associate at the Univ. of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Institute and am still involved in primatology through a conservation genetics project with Philippine tarsiers.I also am a primate behavior consultant for a wildlife sanctuary in southern Costa Rica.”

While at Miami, Jennifer received the Rebecca Jeanne Andrew Memorial Award to study the “Habitat Use and Activity Budget by Two Captive Groups of Western Lowland Gorillas” in Cincinnati & Columbus, USA.  She also examined the “Laterality of Hand Functions in the Naturalistically-Housed Chimpanzees of Chester Zoo in England."