My research interests include emerging assistive technologies, multisensory information access, computing ethics, and computer science education. She is the co-creator of the Computing Ethics Narratives (CEN) project, oversees the development of ethics curricula and assessments, and supervises and mentors students working on the CEN project. 

• Science Education Research

• Galactic formation, structure, stability

• Evolution Stellar Stability

• Observational Astronomy (optical, radio)

• Computational Astrophysics

• General Relativity

My research interests are in the field of observational high-energy astrophysics. I study supermassive black holes (active galactic nuclei; AGN) and their relativistic outflows of plasma called jets. I also work on the multimessenger connection between IceCube astrophysical neutrinos and galaxies. I'm also interested in physics and astronomy education and metacognition. My goal is to make learning as accessible as possible to everyone.

I teach courses in introductory biology, cell and molecular biology, and biochemistry and aim to equip students with the skills to connect biological processes like development, health, and disease to their underlying chemical and molecular explanations. My doctoral research combined bacterial cell envelope biology with chemical and genetic screening technologies to propose new drug discovery strategies. I am particularly fascinated by microorganisms and the many ways they interact with humans at molecular, organismal, and societal scales. 

My laboratory is investigating translational regulation, RNA localization and RNA decay in spirochetes, including the organism that causes Lyme disease. I am particularly interested in the importance of the thermodynamics and kinetics of mRNA folding in in regulating RNA levels and translation.