Many people who are successful in STEM fields were lucky to have someone who turned them on to a topic and encouraged their interest. For Faith Reyes, that person was her high school physics teacher, Ms. Bolster. Whereas Reyes had earlier studied math and science without seeing how those subjects could be applied outside the classroom, her teacher helped her connect those dots and experience the excitement of investigating the physical world. With Ms. Bolster's help, Reyes started a physics club where students would gather before school and conduct experiments. Reyes has carried that enthusiasm for physics into not only her research but her role as a personal tutor and teaching assistant at MIT, where she works to foster the same love of the subject in first- and second-year undergraduate students. As an experimental particle physicist and sixth-year PhD student in the Formaggio Group in the Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Reyes studies neutrinos, elementary particles that have...
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