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RESOURCES Step inside Brad Goodner's lab at Hiram College and
you'll see the usual stuff. There are computer screens, beakers
and test tubes, moldy-looking things growing in culture dishes.
And lots of people doing experiments. The folks growing the
slimy stuff in the dishes, working on the computers, and pouring
liquids into the test tubes are not graduate students, lab
technicians, or even Goodner himself. They are college
studentson any given day, biology or chemistry majors, business
students, psychology or computer science majors. Many of them,
such as sophomore Adam Ewing, treasure the chance to do
research. "I'm working on a part of something that nobody else
has worked on before," says Ewing, a double-major in computer
science and biology at this small college near Cleveland, Ohio.
He is already planning to move on to graduate school. Goodner's
lab is a hands-on learning wonderland, and that's because the
42-year-old biologist is deeply dedica