Rachel Wayne

Archie Carr, a larger-than-life man who could summon a snapping turtle named Jasper at will, paved the way for the conservation of sea turtles around the world. Karen Bjorndal, his former graduate student, and Alan Bolten today direct the Archie Carr...

Two UF alumni archaeologists unearth the home and legend of a freed African Muslim slave who became a financier in Georgetown at the turn of the 19th century. Among the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collection of 19th-century oil portraits of esteemed...

Oceanic crabs find love in strange places, including in the pocket above a sea turtle’s tail and on floating plastic debris. Joseph Pfaller PhD ’16 and Michael Gil PhD ’15 have led several complementary projects that culminated in an intriguing...

Racism is real and stress is not just all in your head. With genetics-based medicine came the compelling desire to boil every health issue down to one’s DNA, with issues such as hypertension and anxiety falling into an ambiguous field straddling the...

The story of how physicists at a Florida university decided to find the inner music of space When you look at the night sky, you’re seeing speckles of light emitted by faraway stars in our galaxy, nestled in a swath of darkness. The darkness,...