Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow
Alex Idso is a doctoral student in Biological Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center, an Adjunct Lecturer at Lehman College, and a member of the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology. She holds an MSc in Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology from University College London and a BA in Anthropology from UC Berkeley. Their research focuses on the computational biomechanics of locomotion in humans and living apes to better understand the evolution of locomotion in our fossil ancestors. She is interested in increasing scientific literacy through active learning in the classroom.