Mireya Mayor has joined FIU as director of the Exploration and Science Communications Initiative in the College of Arts, Sciences & Education. She is developing an innovative program that will help ...

Mireya Mayor is a Primatologist, Fulbright scholar and National Science Foundation Fellow who specializes in researching the lemurs of Madagascar. She also often appears on the National Geographic ...

Mireya is a former NFL cheerleader. Her fantasy NFL team name is “The Lemurs.” A Born Explorer Mireya Mayor gets chased by gorillas and eats too much rice and beans, all for the love of a lemur.

Primatologist Mireya Mayor brings a passion for primates and a newfound knack for adventure to the Ultimate Explorer team. A Fulbright scholar and former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, Mayor is ...

Dr. Mireya Mayor, a primatologist, explorer, author, Fulbright Scholar and NSF Fellow, has for more than a decade been a wildlife correspondent, reporting on wildlife and habitat loss while ...

Mark your calendars on Tuesday, March 22 at 7:00 pm for an event at Kleinhans Music Hall brought to you by National Geographic Live with Mireya Mayor, primatologist, anthropologist, and wildlife ...

Mayor is one of the team tracking the elusive Bigfoot in the wilds of Oregon on the Travel Channel's series “Expedition Bigfoot.” She hasn't lost her scientific integrity to do so, she insists.

Mireya Mayor had it all figured out. She was going to be a lawyer. After growing up in Miami the daughter of a Cuban immigrant single mom, she'd made her way to and almost through the University ...

Mireya Mayor drank cow blood in Tanzania, swam with aggressive sharks in Mexico and faced a 400-pound silverback gorilla in the Congo. But the South Florida-raised wildlife expert still can’t… ...

Mayor says it looked similar to known species of mouse lemur, but there was something different about the one she caught. "And lo and behold, it was a brand new species to science," she says.

Anthropologist, television host, former NFL cheerleader, National Geographic Emerging Explorer . . . Mireya Mayor is many things. A homebody isn’t one of them. In the past year, she has led ...