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It takes a fair amount of wildness to launch a person from the Morehead Scholarship, Oxford and MIT to a campsite by the side of the road in Tajikistan. Originally on track to become an astrobiologist — trained and ready for that mission to Mars — Harris decided to change course between finishing her Rhodes Scholarship and sleeping under her lab bench as a doctoral student at MIT. (Photo by Mel Yule)
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Kate Harris ’05 has traveled just about everywhere but Mars in the years since her graduation.
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