3/23/2018 0 Comments The Only Eyeliner in the Room
By Anna Groves
“You don’t look like a tromp-around-in-the-woods type.” It was 2012, and after four years in an Environmental Studies undergraduate program and a few summers spent in various eco-jobs, I was more than familiar with the expected look. Luckily, the boy commenting was a cute prospective graduate student from Washington D.C. at my grad school interview weekend and not, say, my future advisor who was about to hire me to “tromp around in the woods.”
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By Karelly Ramirez
Sometimes I wonder if I am cut out for this. There are days where my measurements are off, my notes are not organized, and I have to repeat experiments more than once. There are days where I dread opening my textbook and opt for going to class without reading ahead. Sometimes I get bad grades, I obsess over them and wonder, am I really cut out for this? 3/7/2018 2 Comments Animal Testing for Cosmetics
By Emily Davidson
As you walk through the aisles of shampoos and eyeshadows, products marked “cruelty-free” and “vegan” seem almost to be the new norm. However, while many companies have made significant strides towards the obliteration of animal testing, there are a number of brands that still test on animals. There is an increasingly global movement to end animal testing for cosmetics altogether, and that change must be accompanied by scientific advancements to create new ways of testing for toxicity. |
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