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Two students working in the Thompson lab

July 11, 2025

Welcoming Future Scientists: MAP Students Join Addie Thompson’s Lab at MSU

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Addie Thompson, K-12 science education

This July, the Thompson Lab is proud to host three bright high school students—Adrian, Ananya, and Vania—through the Multicultural Apprenticeship Program (MAP).

EcoTek students learning about lab technology with postdoctoral researcher Anuradha Singh and graduate student Matt Chansler.

February 4, 2024

PSM researchers host high school science students from the Detroit Metro area

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Addie Thompson, K-12 science education, Sarah Lebeis

PSM faculty, including PRI's Sarah Lebeis and Addie Thompson, and staff wrap up a second program together with Detroit's EcoTek lab.

Sarah Lebeis (left) pictured with Ecotek lab student Haley (middle) and technician Asia Hawkins (right). Haley is isolating novel soil bacteria to examine how they impact plant growth.

December 1, 2022

Sowing Seeds of diversity

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Addie Thompson, K-12 science education, Sarah Lebeis

MSU professors begin new partnership with Detroit's EcoTek Lab to introduce youths to the research being done in the Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences.

July 7, 2022

MSU receives $590K USDA grant for corn tar spot resistance research

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Addie Thompson, MSU Today, Maize, Tar Spot, USDA

A team of scientists, led by Addie Thompson, has received more than $590,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study resistance to tar spot, a devastating corn disease.