Live Breaking News & Updates on Investigating Gorongosa

Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications
May 3, 2021 1 p.m.
For his senior thesis, Luca Kuziel is investigating the biomes and microbiomes of animals in six African regions, including Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, where he spent two pre-COVID-19 field seasons, and the Mpala Research Center in Kenya (seen here).
Photo by Yuki Haba
When Luca Kuziel discovered the community of ecologists at Princeton, he had no idea that his experience of radical acceptance with them would change the course of his research and his life.
Over the past four years, he has deepened his love of the natural world and gone through his own metamorphosis, coming out as transgender during his second summer at Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. But when he tried to go back for a third summer, to gather data for his senior thesis, he was stymied by COVID-19 travel restrictions. ....

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