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  • Classroom Connections Bolster Scientific Understanding

    As a young person, Karri Haen Whitmer had a profound fear of public speaking. “I…

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  • Diagnosis Inspires Purpose and Service

    By: Ann Y. Robinson Image by Barb McBreen Scarlett Eagle speaks forcefully as she describes…

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  • Interruption of War

    Story by Bill Zahren Images by Christopher Gannon At age 40, Shemaa Albayati didn’t think…

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  • Studying the Genetic Diversity that Lies Beneath

    DNA is everywhere, including the root system of plants. Up until now few have studied…

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  • Strands of Corn Silk and DNA

    Scott Nelson and Marna Yandeau-Nelson combine genetic and biochemical science at work with a home…

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  • Maize on mars: Making “the martian” a reality

    Surrounded by a red rocky surface as far as the eye can see, you look…

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  • Discovering the Diversity of Life

    Jo Anne Powell-Coffman heads a department with a charge to successfully teach and engage students…

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  • The Education of a Young Scientist, and Advice for Future Scientists: Don’t Close Any Doors

    Growing up, Jo Anne Powell-Coffman and her family would recite the Serenity Prayer every evening…

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  • G2F Genomes to Fields

    When Pat Schnable and his colleagues finished sequencing the corn genome in 2009 it turned…

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