She held the Forest O. and Henrietta Lewis Professorship in Electrical Engineering and is a 2010 UT Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award recipient and also received the 2011 Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence. Her current research areas include planar and nano-scale selective CdTe deposition on CdTe(111), Si(100), Si(211) and SOI substrates using a conventional and state-of-the-art close-spaced sublimation (CSS) technique for applications related to solar cells and infrared detectors.