Dear Friends,

When Allison Hanes was working toward her MSc in Primate Conservation, she studied disease transmission between humans and mountain gorillas in Uganda with WINGS Fellow Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, one of the leading conservationists and scientists working to save the critically endangered mountain gorillas of East Africa. Allison was also inspired and influenced by WINGS Fellow Terrie Williams, a large animal physiologist.

Now Allison is in Indonesia leading her own expedition while carrying the same WINGS flag that Terrie took on a research expedition to Antarctica 10 years ago. Allison will be assessing the relationships between humans and gibbons as well as the impact our changing world and climate have had on these relationships.

I often hear that one of the biggest obstacles to women advancing in science careers is the shortage of women in leadership positions to serve as mentors and role models. We are thrilled to share this story of the power of leadership, mentoring, and mutual support.

Yael Jekogian
Managing Director

Growing Networks, Building a Community

In this short video, the 2019 Women of Discovery Awardees discuss what WINGS offers women in science. Click above to watch.

Re-Live the Fellows Symposium

If you missed the 2019 Fellows Forum, or just want to re-live the experience, the Fellows talks are now on YouTube! Click the video below to watch.

Below the Skin with Nina Jablonski

Nina Jablonski wants to use science for social good.

The anthropologist and paleobiologist is the Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology at Penn State University, where she studies the way Old World primates, including humans, evolved.

Today she continues to go on expeditions to southwestern China and Ethiopia to search for fossils. Her research on skin color won her recognition from WINGS as a 2010 Fellow, and that work has deepened in the last nine years, she told WINGS.

>> Read the rest of the blog post

What WINGS' Women of Discovery Are Up To

Krithi Karanth, who was inducted as a WINGS Fellow in April, is one of ten finalists in the 2019 Rolex Awards. The top five finalists will win $200,000 for a global development project. Read more here.
Jill Tarter and Nathalie Cabrol are featured in an upcoming episode of the documentary series Bay Area Revelations about space exploration. See the details here.
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, who works to protect chimpanzees in Uganda, is nominated for the Tusk Conservation Award.
Diana Beresford-Kroeger will be recognized for her conservation work by Carleton University in Canada.
Karen Strier, who carried the WINGS flag to Brazil, was featured on the People Behind the Science Podcast. She talks about how she got interested in science and her work tracking the muriqui monkey.
Edie Widder is on expedition on a research project supported by NOAA. Edie and a team of scientists are studying bioluminescence and vision in the sea creatures that live in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico.

Janey McGill: Her Voices of Change

Along with a team of Anglo-Omani women, Janey McGill carried the WINGS flag across 1,000 km of Oman’s Rub’ Al Khali, a desert in the Arabian Peninsula that spans four countries.

The trek was a physical journey, but it also served as an opportunity for the women to address their cultural differences with the goal of challenging stereotypes. Janey's goal was to encourage understanding, acceptance and respect for cultural and gender differences and identities.

>> Read the full flag report

Allison Hanes: Folklore and Conservation in Siberut, Mentawai Islands, Indonesia

Filmmaker Allison Hanes is on her way to the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia as the first step in producing a 90 minute feature film about the shamans of Siberut and the Mentawai gibbons, local primates who are known for their singing. With the One Health Productions team, she plans to also create a virtual reality short and a traveling multimedia exhibit using gibbon song and indigenous knowledge to showcase the connections between humans, other species and their environment. She'll be carrying the WINGS flag on the expedition.

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