The Galapagos Initiative is home to incredible female leaders and scientists at UNC, USFQ, and at the Galapagos Science Center. Valeria Ochoa-Herrera is vice dean of the College of Science and Engineering at USFQ.
Recent UNC PhD graduate Dr. Hannah Jahnke and team including UNC’s Dr. Amanda Thompson and USFQ’s Dr. Enrique Teran have published a paper in Placenta titled “Maternal stress, placental 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2, and infant HPA axis development in humans: Psychosocial … Read more
UNC researchers Scott Gifford, Harvey Seim and Adrian Marchetti as well as MS candidate Liang Zhao have recently published in Frontiers in Microbiology in a paper titled “Microbial Niche Diversification in the Galapagos Archipelago and Its response to El Niño.” … Read more
USFQ researcher and UNC Adjunct Faculty, Dr. Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and his team, have collaborated with the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid to show one of the most important results of their “Scalesia project” that seeks to explore evolutionary, ecological, and … Read more
UNC alumnus and Founder of Island Innovation, James Ellsmoor (BA ’16), has collaborated with the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance (SCELG) and launched a survey aiming to better understand how Covid-19 was being dealt with on islands globally. … Read more
UNC undergraduate Mia Colloredo-Mansfeld, UNC PhD candidate Francisco Laso and UNC researcher Javier Arce-Nazario have engaged farmers in mapping their own land and shared aerial images with them in order to further the sharing of agricultural knowledge. This latest publication … Read more
