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Volume 6 • Number 1 • Fall 2020
Powerful pennycress: Dr. Sedbrook’s research team is transforming a weed into a crop
Though farmers consider pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) nothing more than a weed, Illinois State Professor of Genetics Dr. John Sedbrook is working to change their perspective—and the plant itself.
Tweeting into the Golden Years
On the first day the #GoldenTweets program was offered, a man walked in saying he was there to learn about birdcalls.
Research Spotlight: Center for Mathematics, Science, and Technology
This issue’s Research Spotlight features the Center for Mathematics, Science, and Technology (CeMaST).
Input harvest: Agriculture professors reap feedback on students’ motivations to reach new generation
It wasn’t long into her teaching tenure at Illinois State University that Dr. Iuliia Tetteh, an assistant professor in the Department of Agriculture, noticed that learning tactics she found interesting and exciting as a student didn’t catch the attention of the young people she was teaching.
