By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In the late 1980s, livestock on Pope’s Dallas-area ranch began experiencing health complications, including neurological problems, birth defects, and sterility. She began researching potential causes and concluded that the illnesses were being caused by...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
While stationed in Asia and Africa with the foreign service, Darwin Curtis saw firsthand the public health and environmental problems facing the developing world. Among them: cooking over wood and charcoal, practices that lead to respiratory disease, eye infection,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Carl Jordan is building on his 25-year career as a University professor and researcher in ecology and agriculture. After years studying red clay soils in the tropics, Jordan focused his expertise on the red soils native to his adopted state of Georgia. In both regions...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Emory Campbell was a microbiologist by training but saw himself first as a Gullah, a descendant of West Africans brought to the Carolina islands by the British in the early 1700s as slave labor. The Gullahs’ physical isolation resulted in a unique culture,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Businessman Richard Gygi witnessed the impact of HIV/AIDS when he traveled to Kenya and saw orphaned children surviving by living in the streets. The unforgettable images of poverty, hunger, and joblessness in Africa forged his resolve to tackle those issues to help...
