Prairie Dog Holes: Rachel Lloyd, Beyond the Laboratory
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Welcome to Prairie Dog Holes: Digging a Little Deeper, a bonus series from Rooted in the Plains that follows interesting stories, unexpected connections, and historical detours that don't always fit into our main episodes.
For our first trip down a prairie dog hole, I'm joined by Mark Griep, professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, to continue our conversation about Rachel Abbie Holloway Lloyd.
We explore what the university looked like when Rachel arrived in 1887, how her sugar beet research expanded across Nebraska, and why bigger beets didn't…
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