The Partnership for Education and the Advancement of Quantum and nanoSciences recently received its second, six-year $4.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Fort Lewis College second-year student Sharelle Yazzie —a pre-med major— never thought she would be interested in research. A transfer student from Diné College, she was checking out different opportunities at FLC when she met Izzy Lamb, assistant professor of Chemistry at FLC, who told her about his work throughout the PEAQS program.