Dr. French received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois in 2002 and a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2006. She was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University before she joined the Biology faculty at USU in 2009. Her research group currently includes three Ph.D. students and a large number of undergraduates, who are invaluable to her work. Dr. French’s group is widely published in a variety of journals and has received funding from the National Science Foundation, United States Geological Survey, the Department of Defense, and National Geographic. Through the NSF Faculty CAREER Award, Dr. French has mentored four different graduate students studying how animals allocate energy among physiological systems critical to health, reproduction, and survival.