A ºÙºÙÊÓƵ graduate student traveled to Ethiopia recently to try to convince farmers and other residents to adopt a new food source: sweet potato leaves.
The leaves are commonly used as livestock feed, but are rarely eaten "due to ingrained food habits and lack of knowledge," .
See more about Lauren Howe's trip in the above video.
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Journey to chemistry
Despite chemistry being her worst subject in high school, Diedra Shorty is now a chemistry graduate student working to develop a new way to diagnose cancer.
Listen to her explain how she wound up at ºÙºÙÊÓƵ in the above video.
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