Alumni Speaker Series Virtual Q&A Featuring Alexa Kelly '16
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Alumni Speaker Series Virtual Q&A featuring Alexa Kelly
Topic: Balancing entrepreneurship and graduate school
Registration: https://fsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqce6pqjMjHt0wgo9i9pUqLSf6iniK7w9g
Student Moderator: Ashley Crisafulli
Submit a question to Alexa here: http://bit.ly/AlexaQuestions
After receiving a B.S. in Anthropology from Florida State University in 2016, Alexa entered graduate school at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. She is currently a 4th year Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical sciences and her current research focuses on climatic adaptation and human evolutionary anatomy. Specifically, her dissertation project investigates the extent to which human nasal anatomy is shaped by environmental (heat, humidity, cold) and metabolic (body size, metabolic demand) forces. In addition to being a full-time doctoral student, Alexa is an entrepreneur. She owns Periwink'd Vintage, a Texas-based small business selling women's vintage clothing. Alexa has a passion for fashion and continues to grow her small business, but her primary career ambition is to become a university professor and contribute innovative research to the study of human evolution.