Jake Drewes had a pretty normal childhood, going to school, doing his homework, and hanging out with friends. But once a year, a research team would visit Drewes and his brother to put them through a series of tests.

“When I was younger, it was mainly cognition, like testing our reading skills or memorization. And then when we got older, there was one where they had an electrode cap on me,” he recalls.

Each year, Teal Guetschow spends dozens of starry summer nights on Grand Riviere Beach in Trinidad and Tobago, surrounded by dozens of enormous leatherback sea turtles. That one kilometer beach is the largest nesting site in the world for the endangered leatherbacks, with up to 300 turtles laying eggs there every night during breeding season. 

But leatherbacks are declining by 5% each year due to threats like the loss of nesting sites or being accidentally caught in fishing nets. 

College students are disproportionately likely to experience depression than most other demographics in the U.S. While just over 8% of adults in the U.S.

The School of Life Sciences is well known for being the home of cutting-edge science, from massive biotechnology labs and innovative cancer research, to being at the forefront of ancient DNA sequencing and housing one of the biggest social insect research groups in the world.