Cohort Program Blog, Interviews and Other Writing

  • Applying a new mathematical modeling framework to existing fossil data

    Authors: Beckett Sterner
    Posted 11/07/2022
    fossil in stone image by josie weiss

    Almost two and half millions of years ago, the microscopic marine plankton species Globoconella puncticulata went extinct during a period of intense glacier formation across the Northern Hemisphere. Why did G. puncticulata go extinct when other ecologically similar species survived, including some to the present data? And what…

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  • The Gene’s Eye View of Evolution: An Interview with J. Arvid Ågren

    Authors: J. Arvid Ågren
    Posted 24/05/2022

    Italia, I., & Sharp, D. (n.d.). The Gene’s Eye View of Evolution: An Interview with J. Arvid Ågren (No. 127). Two for Tea podcast.

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  • Building bridges between biology and design

    Authors: Emilie Snell-Rood
    Posted 02/05/2022
    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…

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