Atomic City: Student researchers, natives weigh consequences of growing up in Los Alamos
(Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Assistant Photo editor)
As a child growing up in New Mexico, Dakota Klasky did not think she could be anything other than a scientist.
Klasky, a third-year mathematics and economics student, moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico when she was 8 years old with her mother and father, who are both physicists in the Los Alamos National Laboratory.