scientists is growing. is helping meet the need. By SHERRY SQUIRES
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Lora Volkert was a working journalist when a routine story interview with a Boise State University faculty member awakened her to possibilities she hadn’t considered in years. The newspaper world was shrinking around her, she realized, but another industry was burgeoning — computer science. “I always did well in math and science and I wondered what would have happened if I had pursued it more,” said Volkert, who interviewed Dr. Amit Jain, an associate professor of computer science, for her story about the need for more graduates to fill jobs. “I thought it might be worth a try giving the other part of my brain a chance to solve problems and come alive again.”
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