2021 Rising Stars: Mary Brown Analytical Chemist, Chroma Color Corp. Mary Brown was raised in Albemarle, N.C., and graduated from Pfeiffer University in 2016 with a degree in biological sciences and a minor in mathematics. She graduated with her master's degree in chemistry from the University of North Carolina in July 2020. In August, she was accepted into the graduate program at North Carolina State University, where she is working toward her master's degree in statistics. Brown's first plastics job was working in the analytical lab with specialty color and additive concentrate supplier Chr...