 I was a high school teacher for a while in the state of Maryland, and that's always kind of been my focus since I got into teaching, and what I really wanted to do was figure out how I could be engaged in research so we can come up with better methods and better ways of teaching. All of my research and scholarship is on teaching and learning, and I think having the opportunities to expand upon that here is really exciting, and there's so many things that the university is doing. The award is a nice thing to kind of show that that emphasis on trying to improve undergraduate teaching and learning. It is an exciting thing, especially since it kind of comes from students, but it just kind of really shows the emphasis and importance that they place on teaching at Purdue, and all the opportunities to help give the students the best experience that they have here. We've got some great students, and they're really out there trying to do some things that make a difference, so I think letting them bring that into the classroom and learning from them, I really look to them for their inspiration, too. What I got out of the teaching experience is, you know, the biggest thing I always want the students to do is I don't want it to be treated like a class. I want it to be real, I want them to be involved in, you know, either their ideas or something that's happening in the community or doing outreach with other students, so I can see where they can start building what they want to do in their lives. I really love when they come back and tell me the stories and, you know, what they're doing now or when they go to grad school and do research now that they probably never thought that they were going to do. That's what I want to see. I want to give the opportunities to the students to be able to bring those stories back, and that's really where I see myself and what I do. So I'm here. I want to see where they go and, you know, see what they can do, and to see the opportunities that they can take from that and what we're trying to teach them. Really make it an authentic experience for them.