2022 Fellows

Geography & Biology; Mentors- Justin Mankin, Jonathan Winters, and Matt Ayres

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Corey is an environmental scientist interested in climate change and its impacts on people and nature. During his PhD, he studied how weather has affected food crops historically, drawing lessons to help adapt agriculture to a more extreme climate. He also assessed the greenhouse gas emissions likely to result from the climate transition. As a Neukom Fellow, Corey is investigating how rising atmospheric carbon dioxide may change how crops and plants in general interact with climate extremes. In his research, he integrates diverse observational data with biophysical and statistical models. Corey is also an enthusiastic environmental and climate educator.

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Film and Media Studies & English; Mentors – Jacqueline Wernimont and Jed Dobson

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Tess uses a mixture of humanistic and computational methods to study large quantities of popular digital "content." Currently, she is working on a book project about major genres of viral media, and the ways in which, since the early 2000s, they have encoded and influenced popular thinking about ethics and morality. Tess writes for both popular and public-facing venues, on topics across contemporary arts, culture, and computation.

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Anthropology & Geisel Medical School; Mentors – Zane Thayer and Brock Christensen

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Luisa studies the transgenerational transmission of trauma and adversity in communities experiencing chronic and acute stressors. Her research focuses on the ways in which historical trauma and structural violence are lived out through caregiving, examining the cultural and biological pathways that may buffer stress and augment resilience in communities of color. As a Neukom scholar, she will work with Dr. Zaneta Thayer and Dr. Brock Christensen to develop novel epigenomic menstruation-based biomarkers with associated computational and analytic techniques as a new methodology for articulating the links between reproductive health and stress.

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