As many of you alread know, my younger brother, Ben, is working on his PHD in Plant Genetics at the Univeristy of Minnesota's Plant Pathology School. Well, this week he won an esteemed award - the M.F. Kernkamp award for most outstanding graduate student. This is huge and I am extremely proud of him. He's not only raising two wonderful children, but he's putting his amazingly bright mind to work for the betterment of mankind.
Norman Borlaug was in attendence. If you don't know who he is, well, he saved over a billion people with his work in plant pathology and genetics and is one of only five (5) people in history to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. The others: Martin Luther King Jr, Mother Theresa, Nelson Madela, and Elie Wiesel.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
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