In the midst of end-of-semester stress, senior thesis mentoring, (badly) balancing research and teaching, and *waves hands at surroundings*, I am grateful to be given the opportunity to see the work through the eyes of my students.

Taking my bits of joy where I can: when the thesis students accidentally put their personal events on the shared lab calendar

Data collection going on in my office: I bought a variety pack of Japanese Kit-Kats, and everybody is ranking them on a 1-5 scale. Conclusions: I am an easy grader; students will eat infinite Kit-Kats

New PIs 🤝 Millennial moms
Everything goes in a bin
(It’s me, I’m both)

So thrilled to see this work out in the world -- the balance of neurotoxic and neuroprotective astrocytes in optic nerve injury. Congratulations to Evan, Mike, and Anna! rdcu.be/dtqwb