AAAS member Melissa Brown is a high school teacher near Charlottesville, Virginia. Her love of science is fueled by the fact that "science is always changing" and "teaching allows me to learn [about new discoveries] along with my students," she said.

AAAS member Melissa Brown is a high school teacher near Charlottesville, Virginia. Her love of science is fueled by the fact that "science is always changing" and "teaching allows me to learn [about new discoveries] along with my students," she said.

Gavi Begtrup (2009-10 Congressional Fellow sponsored by OSA and MRS) is taking an entrepreneurial career path as CEO of tech startup WaveTech.

Freshmen taking a required plant biology course at New Jersey’s Rider University often become attached to the plants they grow for the class, even getting upset when they realize some of the seedlings must die so that their dry biomass can be measured. Throughout this process, the students go beyond common perceptions of plants as “green rocks” that are barely alive and not very interesting except to botanists intent on categorizing them. They get closer to realizing the importance of plants to food supply, atmospheric carbon balance, and even energy sources.