About evolution in action

Evolution in Action (EIA) is our "broader impacts" program funded by the US National Science Foundation as part of our grant called "Integrating responses to environmental change across the biological hierarchy: feedbacks between behavior, plasticity, and genetic change." The EIA program involves college students from the USA and Panama working on field research projects at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. These same students then participate in an online, interactive science show to convey their research experiences in a creative format to the public at large (primarily young people from diverse backgrounds).