Plant Ag grad Amélie Gaudin says having grown up on a farm in France, it’s little wonder she ended up working with crops. “I’ve been interested in agriculture for a long time,” she says. “So I’ve been following passion.” But it was her experience studying the effects of drought in the early 2000s at the International Potato Center in Lima that gave Gaudin the impetus to pursue this passion academically. Read more about Amelie.