How to make academic service activities count

Angela Brown loves research and teaching. But she also enjoys participating in service activities. A professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Lehigh University, US, Brown finds it especially meaningful to serve on her department’s undergraduate curriculum committee, which she also currently chairs. ‘I really care a lot about our undergraduate programme,’ Brown says. ‘Our students go on to do amazing things, and being able to say that we’ve set them up for success is really important to me.’