Mentors: Paul Ziemann, Emmy Longnecker, and Andre Schaum

Bio: Faith recently graduated from San Juan College with a biology associate's degree, and she will be pursuing a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in the fall. She was raised in Dove Creek CO, and was involved in FFA and 4-H growing up which made her appreciate science in the natural world. During 4-H she focused on the mechanisms behind scrapies and copper toxicity in sheep. She also spoke through her FFA chapter about how advances in science have allowed for increased food production on less land. She would like to work in the field of bioremediation, and is excited to work in a laboratory setting sampling air pollutants. Instrumentation in particular seems intriguing and useful in her future career. Being able to observe the difference in air pollution between rural and urban areas will be interesting as well as applicable to the community where she lives.