She joined the college in 2007. Dr. Furst is a nominee of the U.S. Professors of the Year Award (2013), sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She has been selected twice as one of four mathematics scholars to teach in the competitive George Washington University Summer Program for Women in Mathematics. In addition to her own research, Dr. Furst advises Fort Lewis undergraduate research projects funded by the National Science Foundation and other organizations, independent study projects and senior theses on a variety of mathematics topics.