You walk into the movie theatre. The smell of popcorn and butter wafts through. You find the perfect seat. The lights dim and you prepare to lose yourself in the magic of a Hollywood movie. There’s only one problem...Hollywood got the science wrong.
A quote from an ESF professor has guided Katia Avilés-Vázquez through her professional and personal life. “Anyone can climb the highest mountain,” Dr. Robin Kimmerer once said, “as long as they do it at their own pace.”
A group of ESF’s most outstanding undergraduates left campus in the spring of 2012 and headed out to spend the summer working in ecosystems ranging from rivers to the pine bush and settings as diverse as a wolf park in Indiana and a museum in Moscow, all part of their participation in the ESF Honors Program.