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Dr. Michael Stuart, Professor. Ph. D., North Carolina State University. Dr. Stuart came to UNCA with sixteen years of experience in the zoological field and in captive husbandry of wild animals as assistant director of the Monroe, Louisiana Zoo and manager of the Duke University Primate Center. His research interests are the ecological interactions between parasites and hosts. Presently he is working on projects involving parasites of lizards in Arizona and New Mexico, parasites of endangered primates (lemurs in Madagascar, woolly spider monkeys in Brazil, and mantled howling monkeys in Costa Rica), and parasites of box turtles in North Carolina. Most notably, Dr. Stuart was selected to be the first faculty member from UNCA to be awarded the Board of Governors Award for Teaching Excellence, April, 1995.