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Essential work

I study how stress affects animal parenting. With a background as a muralist, I used that style to explore the vast experiment in which we live, showing how people care for one another, or don’t, in stressful times.

Illustration depicting scenes of COVID-19 workers, patients, and protesters, with parent and crying child in foreground.

Rebecca M. Calisi Rodríguez is an associate professor of neurobiology, physiology and behavior at UC Davis.

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