Mary's College of Maryland and a 2009-2011 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow placed in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation. Her scholarly interests include mathematical fluid dynamics and partial differential equations, and she has a sneaking fondness for category theory. In 2008, she received both a Lester R. Ford award (for an American Mathematical Monthly article of expository excellence) and a Henry L. Alder award (for distinguished teaching) from the MAA. She was also a 2002-2003 Project NExT Fellow and a co-author, with Barry Cipra, of the 2001 Mathematics Awareness Month Theme Essay, "Math and the Ocean."