The best part of the LTEE is the wonderful people who’ve worked on it over the years including graduate and undergraduate students, postdocs, technicians, and faculty from around the country and the
world. Two of the doctoral students who have worked with the LTEE samples are Nkrumah Grant and Kyle Card. Both completed their Ph.D. degrees last summer. Owing to the pandemic, however, their graduation ceremony had to be postponed. On Friday, they returned to Michigan State University for the ceremony, in which I placed a special “hood” on each of them that signifies their standing as doctors of philosophy! Here they are in their full regalia.