Faculty Sponsor: Casey Dunn and Rick Benjamin

Matthew worked on the first phase of his interdisciplinary investigation of Slow Loris conservation and phylogeny at the Natural History Museum in New York City, where he used Slow Loris evolutionary history to construct a taxonomic analysis of the clade lorisdae. Matthew then traveled to Java, Indonesia, to do investigative fieldwork in collaboration with the Little Fireface project. His research took a multifaceted approach towards addressing how media impacts Slow Loris populations, and included a journalistic field blog, a phylogenetic analysis, and poetry.