Alumna Bonnie Baxter, professor of biology at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, is director of the Great Salt Lake Institute. She was featured in a NOVA Science Now segment that aired July 28th concerning what ancient salt deposits can tell us about life 250 million years ago.
Baxter has earned international attention for her research of DNA cell repair and her work at Great Salt Lake, where she discovered multiple species of microorganisms called “halophiles.” Her discovery shattered the belief that life could not exist in such a high-saline environment.
Baxter received the Elon Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumna of the Year award in 2008.
Click on the links to the right to view the NOVA segment as well as a story on Baxter’s work that aired on Fox 13 Now in Utah.