Three groups of students from 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis are competing in a nationwide video challenge that not only aims to highlight their own research, but to implore Congress to continue to fund research.
The competition, The Science Coalition’s Fund it Forward Student Video Challenge, asked students to talk about their research or someone else’s in a short video. Of the six finalists from the coalition’s more than 50 member institutions, half are from 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis.
Judges from the organization will award cash prizes to the creators of the top three videos, while viewers can vote for the People’s Choice Award, which comes with $500.
The finalists from 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis are:
- Eliza Oldach, a graduate student with the Coastal & Marine Sciences Institute, who is researching how legislative policies influence the way people interact with nature.
- The graduate and undergraduate students of the Perinatal Origins of Disparities Center, which researches the ways health outcomes are affected by factors before children are born or while they’re growing up.
- Maddy Frey, an undergraduate documenting the various kinds of nemerteans, or ribbon worms, present at the Bodega Marine Reserve. These animals aren’t often studied and little is known about them, she said in .
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