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‘Science can be creative’
In the lab, Marina Sako ’26 investigates DNA ‘breakage’ Marina Sako ’26 recalls wondering as a child how broken bones “know” to put themselves back together. This early fascination gave her a thirst to know how the human body operates on a molecular level, and eventually led her to study biochemistry and molecular biology. Sako…
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From the Stone Age to the video age
ClarkFEST to highlight student research through traditional and interactive exhibits
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How can healthy soil and plants improve food security?
EPIC greenhouse houses biologist Chandra Jack’s critical food-sustainability research
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‘I couldn’t do this research without the new lab’
Ribbon cut on $750K grant-funded life sciences facility
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72 hours in the Amazon
Geography professor vies for $10M research prize with Brazilian rainforest study
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‘There are barely any limitations’
Student interns in the Lux Lab are dedicated to educating and inspiring
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Fruit flies and fungus, molecules and mutations
Summer STEM Workshop brings science alive
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Clark senior’s research takes wing
Can the endangered frosted elfin butterfly be saved?
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‘It feels surreal’
Nina Carlson ’24 is ready to join Microsoft
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How can microbes help farmers grow more food to feed the world?
Below the surface of the soil, a diverse community of microbes — living organisms like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa — interact and play a significant role in breaking down organic matter and cycling nutrients. These microbial interactions can improve or, in some cases, impair the health and growth of plants. Although they cannot be…