E-Mail Irvine, Calif., April 9, 2021 -- Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe, an acclaimed biologist known for her work on the evolution of vision in butterflies, has been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. The University of California, Irvine professor of ecology & evolutionary biology is among a diverse group of 184 artists, writers, scholars and scientists worldwide to receive the prestigious award this year from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants. Briscoe will use her fellowship to support a project titled "Light, Heat and Butterflies: Adaptations of Insects to a Warming Planet." She will conduct field research and write a book weaving together the biophysics, genetics, physiology and evolution of butterflies' visual and thermal adaptations to climate change.