We are proud to be the 2nd women's college in the US with an ABET accredited engineering degree.

I have pretty broad interests.  These include research in condensed matter physics and optics, STEM teacher professional development, and the use of local and global service learning opportunities in engineering courses.  I'm also committed to increasing the number of women interested in pursuing an engineering education.   

I've been at Sweet Briar since 2002.  I was also here from 1999-2000.  I was an engineer at Lucent Technologies/OFS Specialty Photonics in the in-between time.  I spent a year long sabbatical at Virginia Tech from 2007-2008 doing research on rapid switching, nanostructured, electrochromic devices.

I earned a BS in physics in 1994 from the College of Charleston and PhD in physics in 1999 under Prof. R.T. Williams from Wake Forest University.