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
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
In the summer of 2003, Fair and a colleague at the nonprofit where she worked began tutoring her grandson, her colleague’s son and a couple of their friends in reading, algebra and public speaking. While there, the young men also helped around the nonprofit, called...