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THE DOWNLOAD: Sweet Potato Leaves, Football, Chemistry

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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