Erica Krimmel is joining the Arctos Consortium’s efforts to digitize biological specimens and expand access to critical biodiversity research resources with the support of a Switzer Foundation Leadership Grant.
“There are estimated to be over 1,000 species that engage in same-sex coupling or whose sex roles aren’t exactly what you learned about in basic biology,” Christine Wilkinson says in her Queer is Natural video series. “For Pride Month, let...
Read up on the latest titles released by fellows in our Switzer Fellows Book List. Topics range from young adult fiction to socio-environmental research. Let us know if you have a book that should be added to the list! Charney, Noah. These...
ReclaimingSTEM is a science communication and science policy training space that centers the experiences, needs, and wants of people from marginalized communities.
Fieldwork is an important and transformative part of science. But it also carries higher risk of harassment and assault. A new organization founded by fellows Melissa Cronin and Erika Zavaleta is working to change that.
Inspired by ‘P-22’, a mountain lion who was monitored for a decade in the Los Angeles area, Christine Wilkinson’s piece in Nature Ecology & Evolution discusses the broader conservation benefits of naming and narrative around individual study animals.
Karly works at the intersection of medical education, climate change, and health. Her passion for climate advocacy was seeded by her undergraduate work with refugee and immigrant populations and recognition of climate change as a driving force for conflict and displacement.
