Brian Arbogast, University of North Carolina Wilmington associate professor of conversation biology, has been appointed an associate at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, according to a press release.  

His five-year term as an associate of mammalogy started July 1 and will last for a five-year period, the release stated. The Museum of Comparative Zoology is located at Harvard University “and serves as the primary repository for zoological specimens collected by past and present Harvard faculty-curators, staff and associates from around the world,” the release stated.

Arbogast’s research at UNCW has been directed at mammal biodiversity and conservation in the Tropical Andes of Ecuador, the release stated.