interactions. Together with her amazing students and academic as well as industrial partners, she continues to work toward understanding Nature, then using that knowledge to create the next generation of materials that will save the world. Although she continues to be regularly amazing at all the things she does not know, she has learned a few useful things in her relatively short career that help when things get tough: 1. Although it may not always feel it, it helps to remember that we are

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... edibly lucky: the beauty and complexity of Nature is breathtaking, and we are the people who get to work toward understanding it every day! While getting paid! What better job could there possibly be? 2. Nothing is better than equally enthusiastic, competent, and hardworking colleagues and collaborators. They are worth their weight in gold, so once you find them, do everything you can to keep them. Science is best as a team sport, and a good team makes all the difference. 3. Science is hard-because if it were easy, someone else would have already done it. We are here because we have the capacity to create change, to discover and understand the world around us, and to use that knowledge to improve the lives of our community members as well as our environment. Given the magnitude of what we are trying to do, it is natural that turning that capacity into results is challenging. But saving the world is well worth the effort.