Civic Science Fellow McKenna Parnes investigates how collective action can ease youth mental health struggles When McKenna Parnes asked 12 teenagers to give her a tour of their social…

Civic Science Fellow Mulika Musyimi helps San Francisco communities document their own climate stories Deep beneath San Francisco’s streets, 16 high school students follow Mulika Musyimi through dark tunnels…

Lomax Boyd’s path to the Civic Science Fellowship started with his research on brain organoids   When Lomax Boyd published his Ph.D. research on how human brains evolved to…

Civic Science Fellow Rebecca Sausville used neglected survey data to show how graduate education can be more equitable As a newly minted classics Ph.D., Rebecca Sausville was teaching at…

How Julia Minson helps people disagree better Ballroom dancing may seem an unlikely setting for lessons in psychology, but as a graduate student studying disagreement, Julia Minson drew on…

How Shannon Dosemagen is working toward systems change When the BP oil spill devastated the Gulf Coast in 2010, Shannon Dosemagen had a front-row seat to the disaster as…

Civic Science Fellow Lisa Maillard works to help funders support more effective community-engaged research When Lisa Maillard and her colleagues walked into a municipal building in Florida, ready to…

Civic Science Fellow Eunice Mercado-Lara Turns Open-Science Talk into Action Applying for funding can be a time-consuming, opaque process that presents barriers for some applicants, particularly smaller, under-resourced organizations.

How Rose Hendricks transforms language into climate action At the Planetary Health Action Fair in San Francisco this fall, Rose Hendricks moved between twenty poster presentations, each one a…

Civic Science Fellow Erica Palma Kimmerling fosters connections to strengthen science’s relationship with society As an undergraduate studying biomedical engineering, Erica Palma Kimmerling signed up for a gene editing…