At family reunions growing up, Mike Schueller’s mother used to tell him, “Stay out of the water! Don’t get muddy!” Years later, as a Limnologist and Environmental Manager at the Hygienic Lab, Schueller’s job is to break those rules. And he still returns to the park where those gatherings were held to fish for trout with his son.

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A Student Mentorship project at the State Hygienic Laboratory that began in December helped Mallory Wills solidify her goal to become a science teacher.”"It was the first time I got to go see a professional lab and see how everything went together," said Mallory, 17, a senior at Central Lee High School in Donnellson. "It kind of reassured me that that's what I want to do, and that's the field I want to be in."

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In mid-September, a grandfather contacted the Missouri Department of Agriculture (MDA) to report an issue associated with an aerial application of a pesticide over a K-12 rural public school as children were outside on the playground. The grandfather was concerned that his grandchildren and other children might have been exposed to the pesticide as the plane flew over the school during an application to a nearby soybean field.

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The Disease Control Division at the State Hygienic Laboratory moved to a new laboratory information management system called OpenELIS on Sunday, March 1. The new system will affect how clinical specimens (except for neonatal screening, maternal screening and rabies) are reported, billed and accessed through the web.

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Students from Weber elementary spent an afternoon at the Center for the Advancement of Laboratory Science in the State Hygienic Lab. Students from the Iowa City elementary school learned how to extract DNA from strawberries by performing simple laboratory techniques.

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