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(Above) Students tend to plants growing in simulated moon regolith at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. (Below, from left): High school and SIU students working on the project include Aini Ahmed, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy; Sarah Almeida, IMSA; Chetan Singh, graduate student in microbiology; Hannah Phillips, senior in microbiology; Danielle Snyder, freshman in microbiology; Alyssa Zhan, senior in plant science and Scott Hamilton-Brehm, associate professor of microbiology. The IMSA students volunteered to work on the project while visiting SIU for a summer program put on by the STEM Education Research Center. (Photos by Russell Bailey)

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