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1 month ago |
minnesotaalumni.org | George Spencer
Michael Kantar (B.S. ’07, M.S. ’08, Ph.D. ’13) knows about improving the genes of far-flung families by studying their wild relatives. Not the human kind, but the close cousins of major crops like barley, potatoes, pumpkins, rice, rye, and wheat. An associate professor at the University of Hawaii, Kantar identifies valuable traits of these and many other overlooked varieties. The goal? To eventually broaden farmers’ planting choices beyond today’s limited options.
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2 months ago |
magazine.nd.edu | George Spencer
Aesop and the Brothers Grimm would have loved The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. For two decades, its author, Elisabeth Tova Bailey, suffered from withering maladies — chronic fatigue syndrome and an acquired mitochondrial disease that paralyzed her skeletal muscles. A refugee from her farmhouse, she lived in a studio apartment where a caretaker and loved ones tended to her needs. She could barely lift her head.
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Dec 9, 2024 |
magazine.washington.edu | George Spencer
After dreaming about it for years, Roger Fuiten hitchhiked to Alaska to begin a new career with high risks and high rewards. At 20,310 feet, Denali looms large over Alaska’s landscape—and in the imaginations of people who live and travel there. It’s the continent’s tallest peak.
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Dec 8, 2024 |
journals.sagepub.com | George Spencer
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Dec 1, 2024 |
onwisconsin.uwalumni.com | George Spencer
Odysseus overcame many obstacles during his 10-year voyage home. The hero of Homer’s ancient epic The Odyssey might have a modern-day counterpart — computer scientist Brent Seales MS’88, PhD’91. A professor at the University of Kentucky–Lexington, Seales has made it his life’s work to accomplish a seemingly impossible task — to “virtually unwrap” hundreds, possibly thousands, of priceless scrolls that were buried and carbonized when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79.
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