Melody Young
New York Institute of Technology
Medicine
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Are You Stronger Than a Lemur?
Durham, NC,
2022
The fellowship will allow me to collect the first ever intrinsic grip strength data from a wide variety of lemurs and the first measurements of changes in grip force across human ontogeny. I am also extremely excited to be able to share some of the work I do with the public and get students excited about the broad field of science.
About My Project
I am measuring maximum grip forces across a range of strepsirrhine taxa (lemurs) housed at the Duke Lemur Center. I have also designed an age-adjusted learning module outreach program utilizing grip force as an interactive activity to engage K-12th grade students with the specific goals of fostering increased public knowledge regarding primate evolution and biomechanics. In this program, students will be measuring their own grip force and compare it to that of the lemurs I collect at the Duke Lemur Center.
Updates
The NYIT students traveled to Mongolia to perform research and teach middle school students about biomechanics.