Stay Strong, Amino Acids

Lea Hair is a rising senior at the Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport, LA majoring in Chemistry with a minor in visual culture.

But this summer she will be coming to the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute. Among other things, Lea will be learning how to use mass spectroscopy to analyze protein degradation in museum collections.

You can read more in this recent article by the Shreveport Times here.