Funding for 'little science'

Evan Sugden, a University of Washington biology instructor, got funding to support a beekeeping class and a campus hive.

A startup helps bring in cash for small fund-it-yourself science projects with big potential.

WHEN two University of Washington graduates launched one of the first crowd funding sites for science, they had to beat the bushes for projects. A year later, so many researchers are beating on Microryza’s door that the startup born in Seattle is juggling a backlog of 500 proposals.