INTO THE WILD

Out where housed meet the wildernesss, there’s a shifting boundary called the wildland-urban interface. One CALS lab is working to trace that line - and what it means for our environment.

Read Into the Wild. By Adam Hinterthuer

GRAIN OF DOUBT

With corn popping up in our food, our clothes and even our gas tanks, some say we’ve become too dependent on the crop. But if there’s one thing breeders have learned about corn, it’s that the plant can change.

Read Grain of Doubt by Michael Penn

DOUBLE-EDGED HELIX

If you might be carrying the seeds of a rare disease in your genes, would you want to know? Susannah Gilbert did. Here’s how looking into her genetic future changed her life.

Read Double-Edged Helix. by Nicole Miller, MS ‘06