Rebecca Brewer received her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, where her area of research was developing rapid analytical methods for field-testing contaminated ground water and soil. She taught graduate-level courses in analytical chemistry at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, part-time while working full-time at Cytec Industries, Stamford, Connecticut. More recently, she was a full-time faculty member at Regis University in Denver, Colorado, where she taught the general, organic, and biochemistry course for five years. Becky is currently working full-time in industry, doing pharmaceutical research and development for Sandoz, Inc. in Broomfield, Colorado.