My funding mode for attending the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology’s 2025 meeting was through their student journalism program. I chose to interview Victor Ortega-Jiménez, now a professor at UC Berkeley. The piece below, about his research on the mechanics of jumping water striders, is the result. I am quite happy with how it came out! Click the image below to read.


Photo of Trepobates water strider

https://sicb.org/sicb-news/doing-the-righting-thing-how-leaping-water-striders-achieve-a-perfect-landing/