<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/stories/paleontologist-in-the-making.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>11/27/2023</pubDate><title>Paleontologist in the Making </title><description>Senior Conner Minkowitz’s passion for extinct creatures changed when he began studying under a retired Franklin &amp; Marshall College paleontologist. </description><author>Peter Durantine</author><image><img src="/_resources/images/Paleontology%20story%20Erby%20Minkowitz%20Thomas.jpg" alt="Dave Eby Ph.D. '69, P95, G25, Conner Minkowitz '24, and Roger Thomas, Ph.D., (professor emeritus) at the GSA meeting in Pittsburgh."/></image><tags><tag>Brooks College House</tag><tag>Earth and Environmental Science</tag><tag>Geoscience</tag><tag>Research</tag></tags></item>