When Michelle Pellissier Scott was a high school student in the 1950s, she and a friend asked too many questions in biology class one day. “Back then, the teacher wasn’t ‘allowed’ to not know something,” recalls Scott. “So instead of saying, ‘I don’t know—I’ll look it up,’ she burst into tears and ran out of the room.” For Scott, a behavioral ecologist, science is still all about asking questions. Learn more >>>
Monica Quimby’s research into strawberry genetics took her from the
greenhouse to the lab, where she obtained results of much significance
in the ongoing effort to determine the plant’s ancestry.
