Illustration of lush garden plot with specific features representing the different research areas of Tyson Research Center teams during summer 2021.
HUMANS OF TYSON 2021
This past year, the COVID pandemic resulted in a great loss of human life, globally. Political turmoil bred exhaustion as community members across the U.S. continued to fight for seemingly every basic right: access to fair wages, healthcare and housing, the simple right to vote, the human right to walk American streets without harassment born of our white supremacist legacy. And the effects of climate change beleaguered humans, plants, and animals around the world.
At Tyson, striving for academic and environmental justice through science, we identify problems and imagine solutions.
To that end, in a new collaboration with the Education team, the Science Communication team captured the field season cohorts in hybrid mode: whether fully-remote, fully-onsite, or a mixture of both, we asked community members to share the hope (or lack thereof) which drives their work.
Welcome to Humans of Tyson – Hybrid with Hope
Additional Tyson community members and study systems during summer 2021.
Tyson Science Communication Team
PI: Suzanne Loui, PhD
Lecturer in Environmental Studies
Undergraduate Humanities Fellows (interviews and written profiles):
Evan Lundstrom
Raf Rodriguez
Jenise Sheppard
In collaboration with
Tyson Education Team
PI: Susan Flowers, MA (web design)
Tyson Education and Outreach Coordinator
Undergraduate Education Fellows:
Tullaia Powell (illustrations)
Rachel Novack (writing)
Acknowledgements
Support for the Humans of Tyson project was provided by the Washington University College of Arts & Sciences, Office of Undergraduate Research, and Tyson Research Center.