Science has always been politicized. Whether it comes to research funding or classroom curriculum, political values and agendas continuously shape the scientific endeavor and its development. However, under the current political climate, science is being directly threatened and outspokenly admonished. From the deletion of White House pages on climate change…

there is no kind of patience like sitting in a plane in the sky waiting to land i’ve been waiting to land for a while

Change and uncertainty Two things I incessantly avoid Stability and security Two things I incessantly want Head first it hits me The uncertainty of change The change of uncertainty I remain uncertain about change I change as I remain uncertain I am told that only time will tell Then what will it tell? Please tell… Preoccupied by what I cannot control I drive myself down a tunnel of whimsy Deep down into the abyss of smoke

For over ten years, Eliska Rejmánková, a professor of Wetland Ecology at UC Davis and the faculty leader for the Summer Abroad Guatemala, “Ecological and Social Issues” program, has been researching Lake Atitlán, the deepest lake in Central America. …

Roughly the size Ohio, Guatemala is one of the world’s largest coffee producers and “has the highest percentage of its crop classified as high quality.” Some of the nation’s best coffee is actually produced within its western highlands near the well-known Lake Atitlán. Although the demand of Guatemalan coffee has…

Globalization. Neoliberalism. Corporate power. Political corruption. Environmental degradation. These forces are not mutually exclusive systems as they depend upon each other to maintain an endless, perpetuating cycle that reinforces the distinction between the oppressor and the oppressed. As scholar Heather Eaton stated, “globalization refers to processes of global economic restructuring…

As writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley once stated in his 1934 travel book Beyond the Mexique Bay, “Lake Como, it seems to me, touches on the limit of permissibly picturesque, but Atitlán is Como with additional embellishments of several immense volcanoes. It really is too much of a good thing.”‪ …