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In memoriam: Dorothy Cheney (1950-2018)

Dorothy Cheney, professor emeritus and world renowned primatologist in the department of biology in the School of Arts & Sciences at Penn, died on November 9 at her home in Devon, PA after several years’ treatment for breast cancer. She was 68. Dr. Cheney earned her bachelor’s degree in…

In memoriam: Dorothy Cheney (1950-2018)

Dorothy Cheney, professor emeritus and world-renowned primatologist in the department of biology in the School of Arts & Sciences at Penn, died on November 9 at her home in Devon, PA after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 68.    

Congratulations to Dorothy Cheney

Professor Dorothy Cheney has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Dorothy and her husband Professor Robert Seyfarth, Department of Psychology, have contributed importantly to our understanding of communication and social behavior in non-human primates…

Dorothy Cheney has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences!

Recent Ph.D. student Maria Rakhovskaya awarded an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship

Dr. Maria Rakhovskaya, who recently completed her Ph.D. degree with Drs. Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth, began working as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC.  This highly competitive policy fellowship program began in 1973 and provides…

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102 Leidy Laboratories
433 S University Ave
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Philadelphia, PA 19104-4544

P: (215) 898-7121
F: (215) 898-8780

 

Junhyong Kim
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Brian Gregory
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Mecky Pohlschröder
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