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Bones to Pick: UC Berkeley Paleontologist Entices Diverse Students to Dig Her Field

Lisa White scrunches her nose and holds a magnifying glass up to one eye to inspect a peanut-sized vial seemingly full of large tan and ivory sand grains. But a closer look reveals rods, stars and corkscrews—the 50-million-year-old fossilized shells of forams, creatures that still populate the oceans today. Read more about Bones to Pick: UC Berkeley Paleontologist Entices Diverse Students to Dig Her Field »

Posted on July 25, 2014 - 10:57am

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