holly martinson, ph.d., from the university of alaska anchorage to make a database for alaska nativesuffering from cancer. it was his introduction to the world of research, and he fell in love with it. he entered ansep. mr. president, let me talk to you a little bit about ansep. it's a program that attracts young alaska native students from all over alaska and provides extraordinary educational opportunities for them in science, in the stem fields. and ansep students have been enormously successful and have gone on to do incredible, incredible things. i can't say enough about this tremendous program. so eventually, michael was introduced to another mentor, dr. brandon briggs, a professor of by logical sciences -- of biological sciences and director of advanced instrumentation biostudies program. it was his work at dr. briggs' lab that led him to his current passion, finding better, more environmentally friendly ways to extract much-needed, even critical, materials from the earth. mr. president, increasingly both here in congress and across the country, we have been focusing on metals