Regina Fairbanks is a biology major with minors in anthropology and archaeological science in the School of Arts and Sciences. They have been working in the Levine Lab, where they study reproductive arrest in fruit flies. As a Penn Museum Fellow, Fairbanks worked in the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials (CAAM) analyzing botanical remains from an archaeological site in Israel to understand agricultural practices in the Early Bronze Age. They continued research in CAAM through two independent study projects and presented their work at the national ASOR meeting. They previously were a National Science Foundation research intern at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in the botany department. In addition, they are a Benjamin Franklin Scholar and Dean's Scholar. Fairbanks will begin their Ph.D. in Population Biology at the University of California, Davis this fall where they will study the evolutionary genomics of maize.