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Lisa Timmons, assistant professor of molecular biosciences, has a "Nobel" connection. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher for Andrew Fire at Stanford University. Fire and Craig Mello recently were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work with RNA interference. Timmons' research focused on the process of turning off the effects of certain genes. One KU alum, Vernon Smith, has won a Nobel Prize.
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Lewis Lindsay Dyche earned four degrees at KU. Dyche (1857-1915) was professor and chair of zoology and taxidermy and curator of birds and mammals while leading international collecting expeditions. Dyche Hall still displays some of the thousands of wildlife specimens he collected and mounted.
KU HISTORY
A KU student managed to prompt a red scare in 1937. Don Henry, a Dodge City native, was killed during fighting in Spain with left-wing loyalists against right-wing nationalist rebels led by Gen. Franciso Franco. The incident led to months of speculation, debate and criticism of communist sympathies on campus. For more, visit www.kuhistory.com.
NOTABLE ALUMS
KU and Harvard are still the only universities that presently can claim two elected women governors as alums – Kansas' Kathleen Sebelius, who earned a MPA degree, and former Arizona Gov. Jane Dee Hull, an education graduate. However, if Kerry Healy is elected Massachusetts governor in November KU will fall behind Harvard.
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Lisa Timmons, assistant professor of molecular biosciences, has a "Nobel" connection. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher for Andrew Fire at Stanford University. Fire and Craig Mello recently were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work with RNA interference. Timmons' research focused on the process of turning off the effects of certain genes. One KU alum, Vernon Smith, has won a Nobel Prize.
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