This is A-State Connections on KASU. I’m Johnathan Reaves. This is the weekly segment called “A-State Connections and Create@State: Making Connections That Count”. In this interview, Associate Professor and Interim Chair of Biological Sciences Dr. Travis Marsico and Environmental Sciences Program Ph.D. candidate Diana Soteropoulos talk about collections of diverse plants in a small area in Monroe County as part of conservation research. Dr. Marsico, who is also the Curator of the STAR Herbarium,