During her residency in Italy, she studied "Hearth as Home", an architectural and cultural analysis of more than fifty historic hearths located in Civita di Bagnoregio. This study was the first comprehensive documentation of this central feature of the historic houses and public cooking spaces of Civita. Betty was also a past student of AIR 1975 and IHT 1976, and a program assistant for IHT 1979. Clair Enlow