Hope Jahren named on Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People 2016

Hope Jahren (Image courtesy of Matt Ching/TIME)

Hope Jahren, a geobiologist at SOEST, has been named on Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People 2016.

“It is a rare breed of scientist who is both a leader in her field and a great writer, but Hope Jahren is both. A tenured professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Jahren has built a career and a reputation in science by unearthing secrets hidden in fossilized plant life. Her work has resulted in at least 70 studies in dozens of journals, but it’s also given her a platform—a megaphone, really—to talk about something else: widespread sexual harassment and discrimination in science.”

Her new memoir, Lab Girl, debuted last month and is on the New York Times best-seller list.

Read more in Time Magazine.