Congratulations to Dr Manuela Ayee for starting her faculty career as Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at Dordt College. After completing her PhD with us in Chemical Engineering, Manuela spent 3 years as a postdoc with Dr Irena Levitan at UIC’s College of Medicine. There she expanded on her computational interests in the structure and mechanics of lipid layers and acquired a skillset in complementary experimental methods in cell biology. Several publications later, she is now launching her independent, interdisciplinary research career at Dordt College just as it makes its transition to Dordt University. Congrats, Manuela!