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Following her presentation to the OPAS chapter last Wednesday evening, Joanna Wu, a UCLA PhD candidate in Ornithology, spoke to an engaged group of Port Angeles High School science students. Using only two slides, Joanna inspired the students with the story of her life path from her early childhood to her current PhD studies at UCLA focused on the study of female birds.