My Ph.D. dissertation. Although the sheepskin, title, and bound book are neat, the real prize is the dissertation. After years of struggling with the unknown,

My Ph.D. dissertation. Although the sheepskin, title, and bound book are neat, the real prize is the dissertation. After years of struggling with the unknown, I teased out from nature a small secret that no one else in the world knew. Telling that story through the dissertation (and defending it!) was a life-changing experience.