Teaching Associate Professor Brian DeDecker and his students (in lab coats) check out some soybean samples. From left are Maya Nelson, a biochemistry and public health major; Lindsey Neukirch, an MCDB and public health major; and David Birkhaeuser, an MCDB and Spanish major. Casey A. Cass / CU Boulder
Lisa Marshall CU Boulder When Brian DeDecker drives past the bucolic green soybean fields en route to his childhood home in rural Illinois, his mind…