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The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bioprospecting and cell phone bans

By Lucas Willard
Published June 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM EDT

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education and research.

We’ll speak with one of a handful of winners of this year’s Dan David Prize. Hamilton College professor Mackenzie Cooley received the world’s largest history prize for her study of “bioprospecting.”

And we’ll speak with school administrators in New York about the state’s new ban on cell phones in schools.

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Lucas Willard is a news reporter and host at WAMC Northeast Public Radio, which he joined in 2011. He produces and hosts The Best of Our Knowledge and WAMC Listening Party.
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