Erin Riley defended her Ph.D. work “Single Molecule Photoluminescence Intermittency: The Role of the Host” on December 13. She was a student working under Professors Philip Reid and Bart Kahr for the past 5 years. In the next few months she will be a BEBTEH fellow in the departments of Biostatistics, Public Health, and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences here at the UW working under Professor Chris Simpson. Erin is excited to hone her analytic skills while analyzing air pollutant data with the aim of minimizing human disease from exposure to toxic combustion particulates and gasses.