Assistant Director, Office of University Scholars & Fellows
Jeremiah Rosen is the Assistant Director of the Cardea Fellows and Spire Fellows programs. He was born and raised in Massachusetts, living in Worcester and then Newton, until he went to college at the State University of New York at Albany, where he earned a B.S. in Biology. Always fascinated by science, specifically animals, Jeremiah gained a wide range of research experience working with fruit flies, pigeons, and rats. He spent a year in South Africa living in a game reserve as part of an interdisciplinary research team studying social behavior and learning in vervet monkeys. He followed a single group of monkeys every day from sunrise to sunset, where he learned to recognize each individual and tracked all their behaviors, as well as assisted graduate students with experiments. After returning home, Jeremiah worked as the lab manager for the Jane Goodall Research Center in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke.
Through working with students in the lab and at Duke TIP, Jeremiah developed an interest in education. He taught 8th-grade science for a year and then spent a number of years supporting medical residents at Duke Hospital, working on projects related to resident wellness and recruitment of underrepresented minority residents. In his free time, Jeremiah enjoys hiking, camping, playing board games, watching movies, and petting neighborhood cats with his wife, Lauren.