I have held physics faculty positions at Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College, and DePauw University. My research specialties are lasers, quantum optics, and nonlinear dynamics, with work that has been experimental, computational, and theoretical. I have taught most courses in the undergraduate and graduate physics curricula and have served as department chair. I also have served as the chief academic officer at DePauw University and as the Executive Director at Five Colleges, Incorporated (the collaboration of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I am a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.