 So my name is Ariel Murphy and I'm studying material science and engineering. So what I do is really cool to me at least. So I look at studying the effect of alloying on recrystallization and grain growth in magnesium alloys. So magnesium is a very important material because it's extremely lightweight. So we're studying these materials for automobile applications and for some aerospace applications to reduce the weight of components that we use. Right now there's really not a system that exists for predicting materials properties and my work is a part of the predictive integrated structural material science center here at Michigan. So the hope is that my experimental data will be used in phase fill and plasticity models to actually model to be able to predict nucleation and growth kinetics. So I was a real nerd in high school like a real nerd and I met a teacher who thought you're pretty good at math and science, you should do science there. And she explained to me that as a high school student you could do college level research. So I started working on a similar project looking at the effect of microstructure on mechanical behavior in aluminum alloys at the University of Alabama. So my mom would drive me the two hours to Tuscaloosa every week so I could do experiments. It's pretty cool. I am an NSF fellow so I had the NSF fellowship and I'm a Rack of Mary fellow and I really am glad that I had both of those because it allowed me to really choose my own research topic because I really wasn't working off of a grant that my advisor had, I had my own funding. So that was a blessing and a curse at the same time because the curse was I was working on my own research so I was coming up with the plan and the ideas. But the blessing is like at this stage in my PhD career it's really, I'm still excited about it because I got to choose what I wanted to do. I knew that Michigan cared about their graduate students and cared about them advancing in their development but I didn't expect it to be as much as it is. Like for example I wanted to go home and host a robotics workshop at a rural high school in my community and they were like sure you want to go, we'll help you. The funding was completely from the grad ed office at Michigan. That's all the way back in Alabama, that's not like a Michigan, I'm not going back to a Michigan high school I'm going back home and so just to get the support there I don't think I expected for it to be the way it is. A professor asked me the question, he was like it's not necessarily what you want to be when you grow up it's who do you want to be and that was very different, I never thought about it that way and I remember thinking like what are things that are really important to me mentoring, research and teaching were like my top three and kind of being my own boss. So I really started to entertain the idea of being a professor more talking to other professors in the field especially young females asking them about their experiences and how they got into it and after that I was like I'm pretty sure that I want to be a professor so my goal is to be a professor at an R1 institution and this is over.