Doctoral Candidate, Anna Hiatt, has been awarded a Graduate Fellowship to the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) for her proposed project “Evaluation of the Validity and Reliability of the Evo-Devo Concept Inventory.” As a part of the fellowship Anna will spend several weeks of the upcoming spring semester at NESCent in Durham, NC, to work on the proposed project which encompasses the final stages of her dissertation research building an Evo-Devo Concept Inventory. Anna’s proposal was judged based NESCent’s scientific mission to advance research that addresses fundamental questions in evolutionary science by integrating methods, concepts, and data within and across disciplines. Anna’s time at NESCent will be spent working on her proposed project and helping to develop other concept inventories and providing tools for educators to use to improve evolutionary understanding through the Evo CI Toolkit Working Group. The Working Group is currently developing concept inventories on evo-devo, population thinking, and random processes in evolutionary biology. Concept Inventories are diagnostic tests composed of multiple choice questions with responses made up of correct statements and incorrect statements based on common misconceptions that students have and are used to measure a student’s understanding of a particular subject. In addition to working with other evolutionary biologists and evolution education researchers in the Working Group, the fellowship also provides her with an opportunity to meet with prestigious visiting scholars who conduct synthetic research in the evolutionary sciences. NESCent is jointly operated by Duke University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University, and is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Anna’s project will be advised by her major professor, Dr. Donald French, and NESCent mentor, Dr. Kathryn Perez of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.