Kansas University students and faculty who worked on this series

Beasley

Castaneda

Zak Beasley is a senior in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications and hopes to work in television news when he graduates in 2007.

Erin Castaneda will graduate in May 2007 with English and journalism degrees. She plans to be a newspaper reporter.

Davis

Hardman

Fred Davis is a Topeka native and a senior at the journalism school. He is looking to get into print journalism after graduation.

Sally Hardman is an August 2006 graduate from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications and hopes to work in television sports production.

Horsley

Martin-Wolfe

Liz Horsley is a graduate student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications and hopes to continue on to pursue her Ph.D. after she receives her master’s degree at KU.

Staci Martin-Wolfe is a journalism graduate student at KU. She served as the multimedia coordinator for the Stauffer Multimedia Newsroom.

Price

Musser

Megan Price is a senior in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications and works part-time for 6News. She plans to work in either television news or public relations when she graduates in 2007.

Rick Musser is the Clyde Reed Teaching Professor at KU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications. He taught the summer environmental reporting class that produced this series and worked with students on reporting and writing their stories.