Department of Evolutionary AnthropologyMadison Moore
Madison graduated from Franklin & Marshall College with a degree in Animal Behavior in 2019. As an undergraduate, Madison studied capuchin monkey cognition, focusing on their perception of femininity and masculinity in images of conspecific faces. She also interned at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center training scent detection, search and rescue, and cancer detection K9s. Madison is excited to work at the DCCC where she can learn more about the cognitive abilities of working dogs.
Morgan Ferrans
Morgan graduated from Duke in 2019 with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Chemistry. During her undergraduate career, she completed a thesis project on how 14-month old infants learn emotion words using facial cues. In addition, she interned at the Veterinary Specialty Hospital of the Carolinas and Triangle Veterinary Hospital, where she assisted veterinarians in emergency, specialty, and general practices. Morgan is looking forward to applying the same creative problem solving necessary for infant research to study cognitive development in animals at the DCCC.
Maggie Bunzey
Maggie graduated with a degree in Elementary Education, with a minor in Spanish and a concentration in Behavioral Studies, from UNCW in 2015. She worked as a teacher in Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools for 4 years and became incredibly interested in helping children work through their emotions through training in Conscious Discipline. As the Canine Cognition Center began collaborating with Duke Hospital’s Pediatric division, Maggie was hired to help facilitate that connection and bring her knowledge and work with children to the lab.