Verner started her academic career at U of I in Moscow but returned home to Idaho Falls for her master’s and doctorate degrees. “People are here to take care of what we do have and responsible energy production is one of the primary ways humans are impacting the environment.” “They basically see our relationship with the environment as being stewards,” she said. Her dad was a forester and her mom came from an agricultural upbringing, and both saw the importance of preserving a natural environment. Verner grew up in Idaho Falls to a family that cared for the outdoors. “I realized I wanted to do the more scientific side of conserving the environment.” “After I did dance for a year in college, I realized it’s not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life,” she said. Verner spent the summer after her freshman year as an intern at Buffalo Bill State Park in Wyoming, where the experience working with kids and being in the natural environment prompted her to switch her major to biological and agricultural engineering. “If I would have told myself when I was 17 that I would get three engineering degrees, I would have laughed,” she said. It wasn’t until after her first year of college, however, that she realized she wanted to pursue a different path - engineering. From a long line of Vandals, it wasn’t a surprise that she attended the University of Idaho. She’d taken ballet lessons since the age of 4. She also cared about her natural surroundings.
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