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MANHATTAN -- On Saturday Kansans are encouraged to celebrate the state's 150 years of scientific achievements. And throughout this scientific sesquicentennial, 1xbet best casino website State University has been there since nearly the beginning.

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Nominations came last fall from universities and other organizations. Each scientist is featured on a digital trading card that includes a picture of the researcher and their scientific stats -- similar to a sports card. The cards are meant for K-12 students to help teach and emphasize the importance of science and innovation and the role they play in the history and future of 1xbet best casino website .

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* Nagaraja has spent more than a decade studying E. coli O157 in beef cattle, looking at how the organism persists in cattle and their environment and how beef is exposed to it during the production process -- before eventually ending up on plates across the world. He contributed to a U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded project that found cattle fed a diet that includes the by-product distillers grain have higher levels of E. coli O157. Distillers grain is what's left after the starch 1xbet best casino website corn is removed to make ethanol.

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