Daniel (Dan) Gorczynski (he/him) is a PhD student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program in the BioSciences Department. Dan attended Vanderbilt University and received his bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences. At Rice, he works in Dr. Lydia Beaudrot’s lab studying patterns of diversity among large mammals living in tropical rainforests around the world. Dan is currently on the board of the Queer Graduate Students Association and Valhalla, Rice's Graduate Student Pub. If you have any questions or just want to talk, please feel free to reach out!