Cohort Program Blog, Interviews and Other Writing

  • Bio-inspired design: interview with PI Emilie Snell-Rood

    Authors: Ivana Truong
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    blue butterfly on white flower with graph paper dots on the right side of the image; close up of the butterfly with full green background

    Could you introduce yourself?
    I’m Emilie Snell-Rood, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota in the College of Biological Sciences and the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. I'm broadly interested in how organisms deal with changing environments and what that means for conservation. In parallel, I’m interested in how the human-…

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  • Is a Person’s Sex a Social Construct?

    Authors: Justin Garson
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    Garson, J. (2023). Is a Person’s Sex a Social Construct? Psychology Today.

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  • Building bridges between biology and design

    Authors: Emilie Snell-Rood
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    In the classroom: sketching diagrams of a lobster-inspired device that could harvest desalinated water.

    “I want to build a community center where people come together and get along, and I’m looking at nature for ideas because of all of the harmonious and interconnected relationships where animals and plants co-exist.”

    I was talking with an architecture graduate student in a class on bio-inspired design. She was one of many students who was excited to dive into the…

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