College of Earth, Life, and Health Sciences

By: Chelsea Patterson Remember summers as a kid, when you would go out exploring the woods and great outdoors like it was your playground? There was nothing to fear, no obstacle you couldn’t handle, except one. The one your parents always warned you about. If you touched its leaves, your skin would turn bright red, […]

By: April Jungo-Garcia Hello everyone! My name is April Jungo and my home institution is Humboldt State University in northern California. I am a Zoology major with a minor in Chemistry and I will be starting my final semester at HSU in the Fall. I would like to pursue a master’s degree in either insect […]

By Bridget Tweedie Hey everyone!  My name is Bridget Tweedie and I am a rising junior at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. I’m a biology major with a focus in ecology and what I love most is finding the interconnectedness between organisms and ecosystems. I grew up in Maine and was drawn to the One-Health […]

By Morelys Rodríguez Alfonso As a rising junior student at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, engaging in opportunities outside of my comfort zone is crucial for my interdisciplinary research. As part of the REU ANEW: One Health cohort, I am able to partake in research in the beautiful Orono, Maine. It is here […]

By Charlotte Rhodes I’m a rising senior at the University of Connecticut majoring in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, with a minor in Environmental Studies. Because of my interest in a number of different fields, I have found it very difficult to pinpoint an area of study. I began my undergraduate degree as a Marine Biology […]

By Shayla Miller Hello!  I am Shayla Miller, a rising junior at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma, majoring in biological sciences with a minor in chemistry. Areas of research I am interested in include human health, medical entomology, and ecology.  After graduation, I plan to attend medical school. I was particularly interested in […]

By Helene Mantineo Regeneration is an important, cutting edge branch of science in which the zebrafish is king. Zebrafish are capable of regenerating many parts of their bodies if injured, including their fins, hearts and parts of their nervous system. Unfortunately, humans do not have this regenerative capacity and instead form scars when our organs […]

By Liv Hemond As I clicked the “submit” button and waited for the results to pop up on my computer screen, I thought over the process that had gotten me to this point. All of the hours of lab work I had done over the previous weeks, preparing and purifying my DNA samples so that […]

By Aalayna Green Hello!  My name is Aalayna and I am a rising junior at Michigan State University where I am majoring in Zoology with a concentration in Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology. At State, my primary research project focuses on the gender dimensions of wildlife trafficking in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Through this […]

By Alex Chaney A couple of weeks ago I found myself engaged in an intensely informative tour of the Maine State Potato Board Lab in Aroostook County. Andrew Plant, plant pathologist and lab manager, described a normal day at the lab which includes testing potato tuber samples sent into the lab by farmers all over […]