Grad check

By Alaide Vilchis Ibarra

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Miles Stotts

Year: 1980/1983

Degree: Biology ‘80, Masters in Biology ‘83

Hometown: Russell, Kan.

Back in the day: College students could legally buy and consume alcohol, disco hadn’t been invented and the Grateful Dead started touring through the Midwest.

What he does now: Stotts is responsible for writing the air pollusion control regulations for the state of Kansas.

What he misses: When Stotts was a graduate student at the University, he got a small office behind the museum of natural history. His office was full of fish preserved in alcohol. Stotts says of the smell inside the lab: “In all the years and years of different places I’ve been, I’ve never smelled something like that!”

His advice: “No matter how difficult it is, if you go to class every time, take really good notes, and read all the assignments for that class, you probably won’t have to study very much.”

 

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