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The award-winning chemist publishes on critical carbon-consuming enzyme and is recognized for her dedication to the professional development of undergraduate students
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Fifty-five years after graduating from the College, the alumna gives a firsthand account of her trailblazing activism in the historic 1968 Columbia protests.