Badri Ghimire is a biology graduate student working on research of the impacts of deer grazing of manzanita plants at the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve on Tuesday, August 1, 2017 in Chico, Calif. (Jason Halley/University Photographer)
Chelby Polines, 22, Rigoberto Vazquez, 22, Dr. Ozgul Yasar, and Victoria Matthews, 21, (clockwise from left to right) work on a chemical compound as part of a research project on the mechanical and surface properties of scaffolds for the Chico STEM Connections Collaborative (CSC2) Engineering UGR Summer Program Research project on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 in Chico, Calif. (Jason Halley/University Photographer)