DANIEL STREICKER, an infectious disease ecologist pictured above, was featured in the Winter 2011 Graduate School Magazine while he was a UGA doctoral student. He was photographed at dusk that year by our photographer, Nancy Evelyn. This picture reappeared on the National Geographic website this past summer.

Today, Streicker is a Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow in the National Geographic Society. According to their website, he joins a group of 14 inspiring trailblazers from around the world as a member of their Emerging Explorers program. Nat Geo describes these explorers as “gifted and inspiring adventurers, scientists and innovators—all early in their careers—whose achievements are making a difference in the world.” Streicker’s research in disease transmission continues at the University of Glasgow and in locales such as Peru and the Amazon.