Cohort Program Blog, Interviews and Other Writing

Garson, J. (2022, June 14). Are Mental Disorders Diseases? Psychology Today: The Biology of Human Nature.

“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…

The star-nosed mole is aptly named. Its distinctive snout consists of twenty-two tendrils ringing a pair of nostrils and, from some angles, the entire setup resembles a misshapen star. The tendrils are fleshy and look a bit like fingers and, like fingers, they have a certain “manual” dexterity. But why? Why does the mole have such a singular appendage as opposed to…