She is a disciplinary-based education researcher interested in a broad range of diversity issues in STEM education. Specifically, she studies how research-based instructional strategies can be adapted to work at institutions like UCF, where students have a variety of academic backgrounds and commitments competing for their time. She is also an active participant in several education programs, including the American Physical Society Physics Teacher Education Coalition, which strives to improve high school physics teacher preparation, and Bridge Program, which strives to increase the number of under-represented minorities earning physics PhDs.