She enjoys teaching and outreach. She has directed several education related programs at OSU including the NSF GK-12 program ‘Integrating Ecology and Biotechnology in Rural Schools in Oregon’ for graduate students, the NSF REU on ‘Pollination Biology’ for undergraduates, and the ‘Discovering the Scientist Within’ program for middle school girls. She believes that these and other ‘outside the box’ educational opportunities that she developed at OSU, earned her the Distinguished Achievement in Teaching award from the Entomological Society of America.