Animal behavior graduate forged her own approach to studying children’s connection to honeybees (opens in new tab)

Halfway into Amalie Strange’s dissertation defense, she stopped her presentation and left the room, inviting her audience to follow.Subverting the expectations of a traditional scientific defense, Strange, a graduate of the animal behavior PhD program, presented her dissertation results with a gallery exhibition she had set up in the Biodesign Institute — complete with drawings from students that she used as research data, videos she edited and an observation hive full of buzzing honeybees.