Water Contamination Solution: Life Bucket Ben Fellows, Hannah Bauer, Rory Sullivan, Tanner Platt, Max Leroy

Meet Cassandra Maya, Ph.D., a Grand Challenges Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow at the Schmid College of Science and Technology! Dr. Maya holds a Ph.D. in nutrition from the University of Copenhagen. She is a food and nutrition scientist specializing in the nutrition, quality, and consumer acceptance of alternative proteins, with a particular interest in edible insects.

Congratulations to Dr. Gabriela Shirkey for receiving $300,000 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) MOSAICS program! Her research project is titled Collaborative Nexus for Networking, Education, and Career Training in Surface Biology and Geology. This project leverages expert leadership and training from two surface biology and geology (SBG) research institutions, Chapman University and JPL,