She teaches cell biology, genetics, introductory developmental biology, and introduction to plant kingdom at the undergraduate level. She received her PhD in plant cell biology from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. She currently does research with undergraduate students in the cellular mechanisms of root gravitropism using Arabidopsis thaliana as the model system, and also in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Khurana received the Indiana University East New Faculty Teaching Award in 2014.