Martha holding an Anolis gundlachi at El Yunque Rainforest in 2013
(Core ’05, CAS ’07)
Years at Boston University: 4 years
Current location: Medford, MA (but works in Cambridge)
Company and Title: “I’m currently a PhD candidate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. I’m also affiliated with the Department of Herpetology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.”
Recent activities: “I recently ran two legs for the One Run For Boston, a transcontinental relay (the first of its kind!) to raise money for the One Fund. I was interviewed for USA today! Also, I published some work I began as an undergraduate working with Chris Schneider at BU in Molecular Ecology.”
Martha in Valle Nuevo, La Vega, Dominican Republic in 2011
Benefits of the Core: “I have used the Core to keep myself interested in good books and big ideas. I also have learned to defend my points of view better. I have learned to appreciate good ideas, old and new, and have fallen in love with words.”
