Wendy Silk and the Science Singers

Wendy Silk is a professor of water science and quantitative biologist in the Land, Air, and Water Resources Department at UC Davis. She earned her B.A. at Harvard University, studying Applied Math in Biology and went on to complete her Ph.D. in Botany-Plan Physiology at UC Berkeley. She is the creator of the SAS 42 “Earth, Water, Science, and Song” course, inspired by the Art/Science Fusion Program.

Anthony (Tony) Dumas is a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at University of California, Davis where he is completing his dissertation, titled “(Re)Locating Flamenco: Bohemian Habitus and Cosmopolitan Ethics in Northern California.” He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Musical Studies from the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam (1999), a Master of Arts in Music from Arizona State University (2002), and a Master of Arts in Music from the University of California, Davis (2008). He is the 2010 recipient of the Marnie Dilling prize from the Northern California Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Renata Vidovic is a freshman undergraduate with a Biology and Environmental Sciences double major. She hopes to work on environmental policy and conservation.