Haskell, University of Kansas work to bring underrepresented communities into lab sciences
Haskell Indian Nations University graduate Dori Summers’ post-undergraduate research tapped into studies of how native grasses from Kansas to Illinois compared when studied for the purpose of restoring prairie plowed for commercial crop production.
Summers, who is from St. Marys and affiliated with the Dine tribe, has taken part since September in a National Institutes of Health-funded program at the University of Kansas. It’s designed to place recent college graduates from groups underrepresented in neuroscience, genetics, biochemistry, microbiology and other scientific fields in a one-year, $28,000 development program at KU with a faculty mentor. The goal is to usher students to enter graduate school.
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