Whenever I tell people that I am a research assistant in the primatology lab at UMass, I get a few responses: “The what lab?” (“Primatology—I can tell you a ton of fun facts about different kinds of monkeys if you’re interested!”) “Wait, there’s monkeys on campus?!” (“No, but I do look at pictures of them!) This is usually followed by: “So… what exactly do you do?” This is a little bit more difficult to answer. One project we are currently working on in the lab focuses on pri