6-11-13: A Nobel Laureate on Sequestration and Science Research, Remembering Homer Favor, and Baltimore Children's Authors

Summary: It took two decades, but molecular biologist Carol Greider won a Nobel Prize in 2009 for work she did as a graduate student. Now, thanks to sequester budget cuts, graduate students have been cut from her lab at Johns Hopkins. We talk with her about the sequester’s impact on her research. Then, civil rights leader and retired Morgan State professor Homer Favor died this past weekend. We'll hear part of a conversation we taped with him less than two months ago and we’ll talk about his life and work with Ray Winbush, director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State. And Tom Hall asks children's lit authors Elisabeth Dahl and Elissa Brent Weissman about the challenges of childhood illuminated in their new books.