It’s not unusual to find Emma DeVine BS’19, MAT’21 collecting water samples in a stream or tagging monarch butterflies to study migration with her middle school students. “I really enjoyed it.”At UT Dallas, DeVine participated in UTeach Dallas, a program in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics that focuses on recruiting, developing and retaining secondary mathematics, science and computer science teachers. She simultaneously pursued a Master of Arts in Teaching in science education through UTeach Dallas, attending classes at night. In 2022, she was named the Outstanding Rookie Science Teacher of the Year by the Science Teachers Association of Texas. “The director of the UTeach Dallas program, Dr. Mary Urquhart, and associate director Katherine Donaldson are so passionate and supportive of preservice and veteran teachers,” DeVine said.