Outreach

  1. PNAS SCIENCE SESSIONS PODCAST
Listen to a brief conversation with Orit Peleg, Golnar Fard and Francisco López Jiménez explaining how honeybees overcome geometric constraints to construct honeycombs.

https://www.pnas.org/post/podcast/honeybees-natures-puzzle-solver

2. University of Colorado Boulder Department of Computer Science

The CS department at CU Boulder has featured a piece about my work that highlights my overall perspective on research and the way we conduct science in our lab.

Read about my mentoring experience with two brilliant high school students, Charlotte Gorgemans and April Tong for over a year. The students’ work with our lab has led them to submit projects to several science fairs to great success, and has benefited our lab’s research through their involvement and curiosity.

https://www.colorado.edu/cs/2021/07/08/it-takes-hive-community-volunteers-honeybee-research

3. University of Colorado Boulder college of Engineering and Applied Sciences

I have discussed the applications of my work in bio-inspired distributive computation:

https://www.colorado.edu/engineering/2023/04/12/computer-science-phd-student-leads-research-secrets-honeycomb-formation

4. PHYSICS TODAY

Read about how honeybees handle geometric frustrations.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.20221201a/full/