Released July 8, 2010
MISSISSIPPI STATE – Students struggling with ideas for school projects or future careers may only need to look at their newspaper to find topics that interest them.
Many Mississippi State University faculty members can trace their research careers back to science fair projects on topics that were new at the time but have continued to hold their interest for many years. One such topic this year could be the Deep Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Wes Burger, a professor in MSU’s Forestry and Wildlife Research Center, was developing science fair projects in the early 1970s when news of the environmental impacts of toxins, like DDT, was making headlines.
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