Dr. Argelia Lorence, Plant Metabolic Engineering, ABI, recently returned from Cuernavaca, Mexico, after serving as an invited speaker at the seventh Pan American Symposium--Mexico 2008, "Pharmaceutical Environment for Students in Pharmacy: Current and Future Perspectives. The symposium was organized by the local chapter of the International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation (IPSF), an organization representing 350,000 pharmacy students in 70 countries worldwide. Dr. Lorence spoke on "Advances in the Study and Manipulation of Plant Vitamin C Biosynthesis." While in Cuernavaca, she was also invited to serve as international evaluator of the Academic Program in Pharmacy offered by the School of Pharmacy of Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM).