MEET THE BOWDOIN WOMEN IN STEM: La'Shaye Cobley '12 interviewed by Sara Nelson '22

La'Shaye A. E. Cobley graduated from Bowdoin College in 2012 with a double major in biology and Africana studies, and having completed an honors project in biology. She went on to earn her PhD from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah, where she studied interactions between humans and the nitrogen cycle in urban ecosystems. She received a Science Policy Fellowship through the California Council on Science and Technology and was placed at the California Air Resources Board, where she now works as an air pollution specialist in the Freight Policy Section of the Transportation and Toxics Division. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the African American Doctoral Scholars Initiative Fellowship, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the NSF G K-12 Think Globally Learn Locally Fellowship, the Rusack Coastal Studies Fellowship, and Bowdoin College's President's Award. She is also the lead author on several published articles in her field.

This is the kickoff to a series of interviews of Bowdoin women leaders in science by Bowdoin science majors that focuses on their accomplishments and the challenges that they have faced forging careers in various scientific fields.

Open only to participants in the College's COVID-19 testing program. For information, contact Elizabeth Pritchard at epritcha@bowdoin.edu.

Sponsored by the Office of the President, the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs, and Hatch Science Library.

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