Lauren Banks, Class of 2023, has been selected to receive a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to advance her Environmental Sciences studies in France for the 2023–24 and 2024–25 academic years.
Banks, a double major in Biology and French Studies from Santa Cruz, Calif., spent the 2022 fall semester studying abroad in Nantes, France. After graduating from the University this spring, Banks will pursue a master’s degree at the École normale supérieure de Rennes in Bruz, France.
Her research will focus on exploring the connection between the water cycle and soil microbes in forest ecosystems.