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"I told him that I was curious about butterflies," Pierce recalls. "He got a big smile on his face and ushered me right in."
Soon after, Pierce was spending the summer at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory near Crested Butte, Colo.
"Since then, I've never looked back," Pierce says.
Indeed, beginning with her first trip there, Pierce has developed an affinity for Australia, where she now spends three months of every year, living in cabins in the bush.
Now at Harvard, Pierce will spend one year exclusively doing research, and will begin teaching next fall. Pierce says she has been working with students ever since leaving college, serving as a teaching fellow in "just about every bio class at Harvard."