She serves the College as Director of the Bartlett-Crowe Field Station and as the College’s Director of the Environmental Studies Program. She has held the Hull Chair in the Natural Sciences, and served as Chair of the Chemistry Department. She has a bachelor of arts degree from SUNY Potsdam College and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland’s Analytical, Nuclear and Environmental Chemistry Division. In 2012 she won the United Methodist Church Exemplary Teaching Award. She and her husband, Mark, have two children, Ellie and Joe. 2015: