{"id":7057,"date":"2021-08-10T20:39:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T01:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=7057"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:40:09","slug":"melissa-ansley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2021\/08\/10\/melissa-ansley\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Ansley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/files\/2021\/08\/IMG_3312-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/files\/2021\/08\/IMG_3312-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/files\/2021\/08\/IMG_3312-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/files\/2021\/08\/IMG_3312-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/files\/2021\/08\/IMG_3312-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/files\/2021\/08\/IMG_3312-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/files\/2021\/08\/IMG_3312-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Name? Teaching? Lab?<\/h4>\n<p>Melissa Ansley is a middle school science teacher at Marlborough Middle School working in Scott Bunch\u2019s lab.<\/p>\n<h4>Advice for future RETs?<\/h4>\n<p>She advises future RETs to take full advantage of the program and not to be afraid when their research does not match up to their past area of expertise. Melissa believes this is an opportunity that allows educators to combine past and new experiences in the classroom in a way that will further engage students.<\/p>\n<h4>Learn more about Melissa and her work below!<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" title=\"Melissa Ansley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UC1sNTmqN94?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name? Teaching? Lab? Melissa Ansley is a middle school science teacher at Marlborough Middle School working in Scott Bunch\u2019s lab. Advice for future RETs? She advises future RETs to take full advantage of the program and not to be afraid when their research does not match up to their past area of expertise. Melissa believes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7194,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions\/7194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}