MCO graduate student Carlos Rivera-López (G2, Srivastava Lab) recently joined the Srivastava Lab, where he will study stem cells that enable regeneration in an aquatic worm called Hofstenia miamia. He is also co-leading the Summer Research Opportunities at Harvard (SROH) program and hosts a website called Latinx in STEM, which features an extensive list of resources for Latinx students interested in pursuing graduate school.
Networking and building communities around science have always been important to Rivera-López. Growing up in Orocovis in the mountainous, forested region of central Puerto Rico, he was interested in animals and evolution. Although supportive, few of his family and friends were in STEM fields, so Rivera-López began his scientific networking efforts early through participating in school science fairs.
