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...HELPED OPEN THE DOOR for modern biotechnology. Contrary to the then widely held view that bacteria reproduced by cell division, thereby creating genetically identical clones, graduate student Joshua Lederberg discovered in the '40s that bacteria can have sex, reproduce and exchange genetic material. The research won him half the 1958 Nobel Prize. Later, the longtime Rockefeller University president became the first to demonstrate that an organism's genetic material could be manipulated...
...When I tell them what I'm concentrating in, people say, `Oh, how P.C. [politically correct],'" Annie Lederberg '96 says...
...Lederberg says she has found that the students "have a variety of perspectives and different points of view...
Rather than creating an atmosphere in which a particular view of feminism is espoused, Lederberg says that in her Women Studies courses the only lack of exchange occurs when students "avoid confrontation," because of "an excess of deference and unwillingness to challenge" their classmates' opinions...
Hopefully, both Education for Action students and the community at large can benefit from the examples set by Nair and others like her. Annie Lederberg '96 Education for Action Student Board