Orit Peleg
Two high school students have both been volunteering at the Peleg lab regularly for over two years. Their work with the lab has led them to submit projects to several science fairs to great success, and benefit the lab's research through their involvement and curiosity.
In the Smoky Mountains, thousands of fireflies flash in unison. Orit Peleg explores how they do it in a study published in the Journal of The Royal Society Interface.
Research being led by Assistant Professor Orit Peleg is trying to untangle this question by studying social systems in sunflowers through an award from the Human Frontier Science Program.