Stephen E. Harris (PhD candidate)

Stephen joined the lab in Fall 2009 after spending two years as a NYC Teaching Fellow at local middle and high schools in the Bronx.  He holds a B.A. in Biology from the Ohio State University, and a M.A. in Secondary Science Education from CCNY.  His dissertation focuses on the adaptive population genomics of urban white-footed mice.  For the last two years Stephen has worked as a NSF GK-12 fellow at the NY High School for Environmental Studies, and spearheaded the creation of an urban DNA barcoding lab for student projects.  In Fall 2012 he begins his three-year tenure as a NSF Graduate Research Fellow.  He advanced to candidacy in December 2011.  Visit Stephen’s website at http://www.stepheneharris.com/