Burns School of Medicine. She is a dynamic and charismatic communicator who possesses a gift for making complex and abstract subjects accessible. Collier is able to fuse creativity with logic and encourages her students to develop original approaches in their own work at the bench. She also engages in community outreach to recruit high school students into her laboratory each summer and into the Science Fair each fall. Collier believes that “when a professor teaches in a classroom or laboratory, this not only benefits the student but also strengthens the community.”