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SUMMARY:Grad Student Lunch Seminar: From Redlines to Ant Trails\, with Syl
 vana Ross
LOCATION:Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures CCC Building\, 3r
 d Floor\, 235 Garden Ave\, Ithaca\, NY 14853
DESCRIPTION:Sylvana Ross\, a fourth-year graduate student in Entomology\, 
 will present dissertation research on how ants in historically disinveste
 d neighborhoods show measurable physiological and molecular adaptations. 
 She is also developing a long term ecological research (LTER) initative i
 n Cincinnati\, Ohio that combines biodiversity monitoring\, environmental
  justice\, and community-led science. Through partnerships with local org
 anizations and high school students\, this project is designed to generat
 e ecological data for the city while empowering residents to lead researc
 h on the environmental conditions shaping their neighborhood.\n\nThe Grad
 uate Student Lunch Seminar is a recurring forum for graduate students con
 nected to the Center to share their research and receive substantive\, mu
 ltidisciplinary feedback in a supportive setting. Each seminar features o
 ne fellow presenting their current work\, creating space for the kind of 
 engaged\, cross-disciplinary conversation that enriches scholarship and s
 trengthens intellectual community within the Center.\n\nAll are welcome\,
  and undergraduate fellows are especially invited to attend\, making the 
 seminar a bridge across stages of academic development. For undergraduate
 s weighing whether to pursue graduate study\, these sessions offer someth
 ing rare: an honest\, up-close view of how research actually unfolds\, al
 ongside the chance to learn from near-peers navigating that path.\n\nLunc
 h seminars take place from 12–1:30pm at the Center for Racial Justice a\n
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