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Colored Window at Edd’s Drive-In, Pascagoula, MS ©Richard Frishman Richard Frishman received a Fellowship in Photography in 2021 to work on his project, “Ghosts of Segregation.” During his Fellowship year, Frishman road-tripped all around the United States, taking photographs of places that still carry traces of our country’s history of racist policies and actions. The

Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Biology, is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Irvine. There, she leads a lab that studies the evolution of butterfly vision and coloration, and how those characteristics link to behavioral traits. She has researched how butterflies use color to identify

There are myriad Fellows whose work is concerned with climate change, sustainability, and the protection of our planet. Here are a few select names.  Ansel Adams (1946, 1948, and 1959 Fellow in Photography) was a photographer known especially for his black-and-white landscapes of the American West. A lifelong conservationist, he contracted with the United States

Fluvial geographer Frank Magilligan (2020 Fellow in Geography and Environmental Studies) and Sarah Cameron Sunde (2021 Fellow in Drama and Performance Art) may not immediately seem like a natural pair. Magilligan, the Frank J. Reagan ’09 Chair of Policy Studies at Dartmouth College, is one of the foremost experts on stream channel and watershed responses

  “When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself—the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflict and eternal change. For us as living creatures it has special meaning as an area in or near