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JJK FAN Students Dig into Plant Science with the Baxter Lab
Earlier this year, 50 students from the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition Innovation Center (JJK FAN) got to trade their usual schoolwork for microscopes and handfuls of soil thanks to a six-week program led by our Baxter Lab. The program, called Baxter Lab’s Atomic Numbers, provided the fifth-through-eighth grade students the chance to practice…
Read MoreBuilding Capacity: Advanced Training to Improve Teff Productivity
Long before he became a plant biologist studying crop improvement at the Danforth Center, Ibsa Merga was learning about agriculture as a child growing up on his family’s farm in the countryside of Ethiopia. Farming is the backbone of the local community there, and Merga spent his early years working with the plants his family…
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