Luke, a junior at Connecticut College, continues to work with the Ross-Ibarra lab to expand his summer project on the influence of indigenous languages on maize genomics. He spent part of the 2022-2023 academic year in a "study somewhere else" program at the University of Hawaii. He's been seriously bitten by the phylogenetics bug and is conducting research at the Smithsonian in summer 2023 on the phylogeny of newly-discovered species of grapes. In Fall 2024, he will enter a PhD program at Fordham and CUNY, with a fellowship from the NY Botanical Garden Fellowship.