Student Spotlight

Our students inspire us on a daily basis. Looking for inspiration of your own? Explore some of our student stories below:


Audrey Harvey, a Montana State University graduate student in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Science, makes observations on a research plot of bluebunch wheatgrass on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, at the MSU Post Agronomy Farm in Bozeman, Mont. MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez

Audrey Harvey
PhD Candidate


PhD Candidate Haley Dunleavy bends down to examine some of the ecological diversity of the arctic tundra. She is surrounded by green and yellow flora. There is a glacial lake and mountain range in the distance.

Haley Dunleavy
PhD 2021


PhD Candidate Ayla Martinez leads a classroom exercise with her students. Six students stand in front of the classroom with colored illustrations of an ecosystem as other students sit and listen.

Ayla Martinez
PhD Candidate


Graduate student in flannel shirt holding large tray of experimental moss inside greenhouse.

Jasmine Anenberg

PhD student


Vic Monsaint-Queeney

PhD candidate


Natasha Wesely

PhD student