She earned a BS in Mathematics from Wittenberg University and a MS and PhD from North Carolina State University in Applied Mathematics. As a postdoctoral associate at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with physicists and engineers, she used fluid dynamics to better understand the dispersal of medicine in the lung. Since joining Centre, she has collaborated with students modeling biological systems related to the delivery of medicine, aneurysms, and Alzheimer’s Disease. She strives to aid all of her students in seeing the utility of mathematics in the world.​