Researcher, a Utah native, working to solve world hunger

Moscow, Idaho • After spending 10 years in Thailand as a child, Jon Oatley, director of the Center for Reproductive Biology at Washington State University, developed a passion for ending food insecurity around the world.Originally from Utah, Oately returned to the states as a teenager, moving to a tiny ranching town in Nevada called Gardnerville.“There, the big culture was agriculture, as you can imagine — rural Nevada, lots of cattle ranching and other livestock,” Oatley