Mary Coughter

Mary Coughter, Ph.D. student in microbiology at Virginia Commonwealth University - Mary Coughter fell in love with the outdoors at her summer camp when she was 11. This passion carried her into majoring in Environmental Science at Virginia Tech. Beginning to work in research labs as a sophomore in college, she became interested in microbiology and its intersection with environmental change. She then moved to Richmond and VCU to earn a MS degree in biology and is now working towards her Ph.D.