Cougar Query: "Growing Plants in My Childhood Vegetable Garden Sparked My Interest in My Field"
May 10, 2021 BYU employee since: 1996 My job at BYU is… a professor of genetics and associate dean (facilities, graduate education, diversity and international study programs) in the College of Life Sciences. A professor of genetics at BYU, Rick Jellen studies crop genetics of quinoa and oats. Photo by Madeline Mortensen Photo by Madeline Mortensen I’m currently working on… crop genetics, especially of quinoa and oats. I’m currently reading… “The Man Who Loved China,” a book about the twentieth-century Cambridge biochemist Joseph Needham, authored by...
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