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Katherine Weatherford Darling is an accomplished academic with extensive experience in health science and sociology. Currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Health Science at the University of Maine and as Affiliate Faculty at the UMaine Institute of Medicine, Katherine has also held the position of Affiliate Faculty at UMaine GSBSE and Affiliated Investigator at the MaineHealth Institute for Research since 2019. With a prior role as Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Maine at Augusta from 2018 to 2023, Katherine's foundational experience includes a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Stanford University and a position as Assistant Director of Research and Academic Programs at the Science & Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Katherine's research journey began with roles as a Research Assistant at Stanford University and Columbia University Medical Center. Katherine holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco, and a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Environmental Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.