Sally Prasch, scientific glassblower (VIDEO)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Decades ago, every major research university had a team of its own in-house scientific glassblowers, but the profession, once a mainstay, is in danger of going extinct. Today, only a very small handful of universities employ a scientific glassblower—and UMass Amherst is one of them.

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