Enrollments seem to keep climbing while budgets seem to keep shrinking.
Unfortunately, undergraduate science costs money and the more students we have, the more it costs. Therefore, we need to find innovative ways to introduce large numbers of students to the discovery processes involved with science without costing our institutions more money. I translate my passion for doing science into leadership in several areas. Because I am concerned about the experience of introductory students in science, I am involved with developing a new laboratory manual for our introductory biology course. I am also pushing our department to reconsider our biology curriculum as a whole.