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Zelnick Endowed Graduate Research Prize

The ​Zelnick Endowed Graduate Research Prize was established from a generous donation from The Zelnick Belzberg Charitable Trust in 2021 to recognize the transformative research of graduate student members in the Center of Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University. This prize provides an important vehicle to recognize exceptional research by a graduate student on a topic that is chosen as a priority to study by the CHES director and the CHES executive board.

2025 Recipients

William Aguado

Primate Dietary Constraints and Physiological Evolution 

2024 Recipients

Rebecca Brittain

The Importance of Evolutionary Perspectives in Human Health: Lessons from Orangutans, Variable Environments, and Microbiomes

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New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1414

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