Becky Fogel
Education Reporter for at KUT-FM (Austin, TX)
Education reporter for @KUT. Previously editor/producer of newscasts for the Texas Newsroom. Alum of @SciFri @KWBU. I'm a tall 5'3" [email protected]
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1 week ago |
kut.org | Becky Fogel
Read this story in EnglishEl Central Texas Food Bank está sintiendo los efectos de los recortes de fondos de la administración Trump después de que el Departamento de Agricultura de Estados Unidos (USDA, por sus siglas en inglés) recortara más de mil millones de dólares en fondos para programas que apoyan a los bancos de alimentos y ayudan a las escuelas a comprar productos de agricultores locales.
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1 week ago |
tpr.org | Becky Fogel
Andrea Gore, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at UT Austin, knew from a young age that she wanted to be a scientist. She said she always loved watching birds and bugs. "Even as a kid, I would watch the nature programs instead of the sitcoms my friends were watching," she said. John Wallingford was in a similar boat. The UT molecular biology chair took a life sciences class in seventh grade and knew he wanted to be a biology professor. "There's no scientist in my family.
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1 week ago |
kut.org | Becky Fogel
Andrea Gore, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at UT Austin, knew from a young age that she wanted to be a scientist. She said she always loved watching birds and bugs. “Even as a kid, I would watch the nature programs instead of the sitcoms my friends were watching,” she said. John Wallingford was in a similar boat. The UT molecular biology chair took a life sciences class in seventh grade and knew he wanted to be a biology professor. “There’s no scientist in my family.
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1 week ago |
kut.org | Becky Fogel
The Central Texas Food Bank is feeling the effects of the Trump administration's funding cuts after the U.S. Department of Agriculture slashed more than a billion dollars in funding for programs that support food banks and help schools buy goods from local farmers. Within two weeks following the decision, 39 loads of food were canceled, said Beth Corbett, Central Texas Food Bank's vice president of government affairs and advocacy.
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1 week ago |
kut.org | Becky Fogel
When Christy Fox thinks about why federal funding is important to Austin ISD, she thinks about who those dollars support: staff typically working with the district's most vulnerable students. "I think about the human behind it," she said, "because these are real people that have real relationships to help children be successful."Fox is the executive director of state and federal programs for Austin ISD.
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