She joined the Loyola College community in 1994. She was Assistant and the Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 2004 to 2014. She earned her B.A. in Physics from Yale University and her Master’s and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Columbia University. She worked for Perkin-Elmer on the Hubble Space Telescope and was a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Biomedical Engineering Neural Encoding Laboratory studying the encoding of sounds by the peripheral auditory system. Her current interests include innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainability, signal processing, materials science, and engineering education. She has taught engineering for undergraduates, including developing a first-year introduction to engineering course on Design, Creativity and Problem-Solving.