USC Dornsife News

USC Dornsife graduate student reveals that hundreds of endangered eastern chimpanzees inhabit a region of rapidly shrinking forest fragments in Uganda.

An overseas trip to Uganda inspired Molly Beckert to found the nonprofit Echoing Good after her graduation in 2010. Working with residents in Gulu, her group created a farm at a primary school to help feed students — and that was just the start.

Chimps use touches and noisy gestures when trying to get another chimp's attention, finds Maureen McCarthy, a USC Dornsife graduate student conducting research in Uganda. Her research explores self-awareness in great apes.

USC College alumna Divinity Matovu was recognized by Glamour magazine for her leadership at Ugandan nonprofit Amagezi Gemaanyi Youth Association, which she co-founded in 2008.

USC College Ph.D. student Maureen McCarthy spends three months in Uganda researching isolated chimpanzees facing extinction.