She obtained a Postdoctoral Fellowship (Fellowship in Research and Science Teaching) at Emory University, where she also took her Ph.D. in Physiology. She earned a Master of Science in Physiology from Hahnemann (now Drexel) University, and a BS in Biology, with minors in Chemistry and Education from Bucknell University . She coordinates and teaches the introductory lecture and laboratory courses for Biology majors (General Biology 111 and 112), and the elective Neurobiology (317) course, employing active learning pedagogical techniques in the classroom as a means to make learning more interactive and student-centered. She is involved in an ongoing project via the Summer Instructional Design Workshop to redesign a GBio course using this student-centered approach, and evaluate the efficacy of that design.