She received her B. A. degree from Illinois WesleyanUniversity, and her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Loyola University Chicago. After completing her postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she served in visiting teaching positions at both North Central College and Illinois Wesleyan University before arriving at Millsaps in 2014. She has had success in implementing a variety of innovative teaching strategies in the classroom, including her newest venture into gamification. Dr. Hussa’s research interests involve bacterial symbioses, and she has been successful in publishing and presenting her work with undergraduate students at national meetings and in journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology and the Journal of Bacteriology.