During the summer before her senior year at Radford University, a small liberal arts college in Virginia, Donita Brady had a "pivotal" experience that shaped the trajectory of her career. A Division I softball player and chemistry major, she didn't see herself as a scientist yet.
"I didn't really have an idea of what I was going to do with my chemistry degree," Brady said. She had the opportunity to spend the summer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as part of their Carolina Summer Fellows program to explore pharmacology as a discipline. "It was my first experience stepping into a lab environment," she recalled. "I had no idea that research was something I could do as a career."
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