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Undergraduate researcher awarded a Kansas Academy of Science Research Grant
 
Announcements>Derek7-6-10Derek Schneweis, an undergraduate research assistant mentored by Dorith Rotenberg in the Department of Plant Pathology, recently received a 2010 Kansas Academy of Science Undergraduate Research Grant ($500) to fund his proposal entitled “Cloning and characterizing antiviral defense pathway genes in Frankliniella occidentalis, the insect vector host of Tomato spotted wilt virus.”

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