It sounds cliche, but Dale Leavitt, associate professor of biology at Roger Williams University and RI EPSCoR researcher, truly is happy as a clam. He teaches and mentors undergraduate students, spends summer days on the boat, resolving shellfish issues for the fishing and aquaculture industries, and reaps the bounty of his work for dinner.
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