Growing up on the shores of Grand Lake St. Marys in west central Ohio, Grace Gramza developed a passion for improving water quality.
Today, the now-Midland resident is putting that inspiration into practice as a biosystems engineering student at Michigan State University and a summer intern researching PFAS.
“Living on Grand Lake, it was like, ‘Don’t drink the water, don’t swim, don’t eat any fish from the lake,'” Gramza said of Ohio’s largest inland lake, which averages only about six feet of depth and has a lot of algae…