PhD candidate Kiyoko Gotanda聽captured the award-winning photos on her Canon 7D Mark II camera while on a research trip to Santa Cruz Island in the Gal谩pagos in January 2015.
The Gal谩pagos Islands inspired Charles Darwin鈥檚 theory of evolution almost 150 years ago and have since been crucial to evolutionary biology, including to Gotanda鈥檚 own research on Darwin鈥檚 Gal谩pagos finches.聽
During the fall 2015 semester, students enrolled in the Green Chemistry course (CHEM 462) were involved in a unique initiative. They entirely created their very own journal composed of reports and critiques inspired by the 12 principles of green chemistry. An editorial board composed of students in the course was cast and defined teh scope for this new publication. Students each wrote an article, submitted it to the editors, peer evaluted each other's work and finally presented their final work.
Reuben Hudson (bottom right on the photo) is currnetly a post doctoral fellow at Colby University in Maine, in the group of Jeffrey Katz, where he studies the synthesis of polymers. He secured this summer a large research grant on Green Chemistry with reknown green chemists Sankaran Thayumanavan from UMass-Amherst, Eric Beckman from University of Pittsburgh, and John Warner of the Warner-Babcock Institute, from the Science, Education, and Engineering for Sustainability (SEES) program of the National Science Foundation.
