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Ellen Thomas was originally told at her alma mater, the Utrecht University in the Netherlands, that women couldn’t study earth sciences. But she refused to let this stop her. At Wesleyan, Thomas is the Smith Curator of Paleontology of the Joe Webb Peoples Museum of Natural History and Harold T. Stearns Professor of Integrative Sciences,…
Fa’alataitaua Fitisemanu ’24, a molecular biology and biochemistry (MB&B) and chemistry double major, knew he wanted to conduct research on campus and set about making it happen. After reaching out to Professor Teresita Padilla-Benavides, he joined her lab during his sophomore year to coincide with his participation in the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Program, a fellowship…
Julissa Cruz Bautista ’25 represented Wesleyan at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) in Anaheim, California on November 9-12. Cruz Bautista, a prospective molecular biology and biochemistry (MB&B) major, presented a poster on research she conducted in Assistant Professor of MB&B Candace Etson’s lab over the summer and concluded the conference with…
College is hard enough on its own without having a disability. But for students who do have a disability or health condition that impacts their day-to-day functioning, college can feel infinitely more difficult at times. Students in STEM classes, especially, face a skew of deadlines that can seem never-ending, most notably if a student is…
When Jaime Carrazco-Carrillo arrived at Wesleyan last fall from his hometown of Hermosillo, Mexico, he didn’t expect there to be many other Spanish-speaking students or professors on campus. Yet upon his arrival, Carrazco-Carrillo, now a second year Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (MB&B) graduate student, quickly learned about SACNAS, the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native…