Aileen A. O’Donoghue is the Henry Priest Professor of Physics at St. Lawrence University. She received an Associate of Arts degree at Colorado Mountain College that propelled her to earning her B.S. at Fort Lewis College and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. She loves teaching physics, astronomy, meteorology, and Earth science to undergraduates and the general public. Astronomy has taught us that all the elements heavier than hydrogen of which our flesh, bones, and brains are made come from the stars. Helping people recognize the wonder of their own existence as "star stuff" is a deep source of joy for her. The Earth and universe are filled with wonders and every rock, bug, animal, and person is a product of that wonder. This is what Aileen loves to teach. Her research is primarily in radio astronomy and she has conducted observations with the Very Large Array , Arecibo, and Green Bank radio telescopes. She has also observed dwarf galaxies in the visible band at the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope and the optical spectra of stars using the 90” Bok telescope at Kitt Peak and the 1.5 m telescope at Cerro Tololo, Chile. She is currently a member of the ALFALFA undergraduate team observing the hydrogen content and motions in supernova-hosting galaxies.