DUPRI Scholar  Susan Alberts  elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

DUPRI Scholar  Susan Alberts  elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

DURPI Scholar  Susan Alberts has  been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, which is widely considered one of the highest honors a scientist can receive.

She is  among 100 newly elected members and 25 foreign associates who are recognized for their achievements in original research -- 40 percent of whom are women, the most ever elected in any one year to date.

Alberts studies how animal behavior evolved in mammals, with a focus on the social behavior, demography and genetics of the yellow baboon.

Alberts joined the Duke faculty in 1998 after earning her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Since that time she has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in the fields of anthropology, genetics, endocrinology, biology and primatology.

She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014 and won the Cozzarelli Prize of the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Alberts co-directs the Amboseli Baboon Research Project, one of the longest-running studies of wild primates in the world. She has also served as an editor for the American Journal of Primatology, Behavioral Ecology, and PeerJ, among other publications. She is the current chair of the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke.