Congratulations go to Noah Dunham, for the award of a Fulbright-Hays Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, for support of his Ph.D. dissertation project, Food Selection and the Role of Fallback Foods in Black and White Colobus Monkeys from South Coastal Kenya.  Noah’s research will apply the “fallback foods model” to Kenya’s endangered Angola black and white colobus monkey (Colobus angolensis palliatus) inhabiting the Diani Forest and the Kaya Kinondo Forest.  Preferred foods and fallback foods will be identified based on selection in relation to spatial and temporal availability over a 12 month period.  In order to determine if fallback foods elicit different selective pressures, mechanical properties (i.e., toughness and hardness) and nutritional composition (% dry weight of protein, carbohydrates, fat, fiber, and condensed tanins) of preferred foods will be compared to those of fallback foods.  His research will provide new perspectives on why primates select certain foods and will ultimately inform theoretical debates concerning the relationship of fallback foods to evolution of specialized dental morphology and digestive anatomy.  Finally, results from his study will also inform black and white colobus monkey conservation efforts in the south coastal Kenya region.