Pat Wright, distinguished service professor and conservation biologist in the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook University, speaks with host David Wrobel about her unconventional start studying primates in the Amazon to the discovery of a new lemur species in Madagascar.

Then, Anthony Steinbock, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy, shares why phenomenology – an examination of the way in which things present themselves – remains relevant today, in many disciplines, as a method of examining lived experience. This conversation is from January 2026.

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The Difference You Make: The Ideas That Matter is a production of the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University.

Host: Dean David Wrobel
Editor: Rachel Rodriguez