She has had an exemplary career as a teacher and researcher, and has impressed everyone she has worked with not only with her record of academic excellence, but her personal qualities. In a culture where seriousness is an under-appreciated virtue, she approaches her work with uncommon deliberation and diligence. Soft-spoken but sharply focused, she is the consummate professional, concerned about doing a job well and sensitive to questions of utility and ethicality in her work.”