A 27-year-old man with a passion for preserving rivers unwittingly set into motion events that resulted in the removal of hundreds of tons of garbage from Iowa waterways.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently invited Mary DeMartino, clinical microbiology lab manager, and Michael Pentella, Ph.D., associate director, to join a group that is developing a best practices document for the diagnosis of Campylobacter.

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Ah, summertime. Time for teachers to take a break from the rigors of the classroom, relax, recharge and ... become externs? Fifty-six Iowa teachers traded their summer plans for the Real World Externship program that gives them practical applications in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to take back to their classrooms. The State Hygienic Lab is hosting two externs in the six-week program coordinated by the Iowa Mathematics and Science Education Partnership (IMSEP).

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For a sense of what it's like to be part of Project AWARE, check out this video of a crew wrestling with a massive tire to remove it from the Iowa River. Not every retrieval is so large or so dramatic. Finding the unusual and the unexpected, though, is part of the adventure.(Photos courtesy of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources)

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