March 27, 2024
Lucas Roberts, Ph.D. candidate in the Applied Plant Sciences (APS) program (advisor, Aaron Lorenz) and Carlos Sanchez, a master’s student in APS (advisor, Seth Naeve) gave talks at a luncheon describing their experiences as 2022 recipients of the C. Jerry Nelson International Fellowship. They both worked at the Agricultural Research Institute (INIA Chile) near Santiago, Chile, for three weeks in 2023. Lucas was researching virus pressure on beans and Carlos researched soybean development.