Lead Summary

If you ask Dr. Andrew Sorensen's parents, they might tell you he was a bit of a firebug in his youth.
"It is, of course, a happy turn of events that I get to make fire professionally," he said.
Sorensen, formerly of Algona, won the Tübingen Fõrder prize in early prehistory and quaternary ecology from the University of Tübingen in Germany on Feb. 7.
Find out more in the March 7 Advance.