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Education:

PhD, Harvard University, Harvard/MIT Program in Health Science and Technology, in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, 1994

Thesis: Age-Related Changes in the Human Femur

BS, Michigan State University in Engineering Materials Science Biomedical Engineering Minor 1989

                                 

                              Experience:

Department of Physics, United States Military Academy, West Point 

Department of Engineering, Western Carolina University

Ballistics Testing Group

Department of Biomedical Engineering,  The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 

Human Performance Laboratory, Reebok International 

Orthopaedic Biomechanics Lab, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA

Department of Biology, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, University of Cincinnati

Human Performance Lab - Michigan State University

Personal:

Better Physics Through Farming

My husband and I spent a decade running a small farm business and became sort of poster children for new methods in entrepreneurial farming. We profitably raised sweet corn, apples, grapes and other small fruits, sheep, and cattle.  Success was based mostly on marketing and on offering value-added products rather than production efficiency.

However, we ran into some severe production problems due to a local deer population of 75-100 deer per square mile.  These deer were also causing substantial forest damage (preventing regeneration), causing up to 1000 accidents a year in our county, and causing (on average) 5-10 deaths a year in deer-vehicle collisions in the state.  To manage the local suburban deer population and protect our crops, we had to shoot as many as 50 deer per year.  

For several years we dealt with the deer in a perfunctory pest control manner, enjoying the venison and sharing with a large number of  families in the community.  But as we became aware of some interesting research questions in the field of ballistics, we recognized a unique opportunity.

 

 

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