I grew up in southern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and I come from a family of nine children.
I'm my parents fifth daughter and sixth child. I'm currently finishing my PhD in Computer
Science at the University of Utah. Still, after 18 years of running, my favorite hobby is to run long
distances. I recently ran my first 50K and I'm hoping to run my first 50 miler this coming year.

Links to running events that I've enjoyed:

Canyonlands Half Marathon, 2001 & 2003
Ogden Marathon, 2002
Idaho Great Potato Marathon, 2002
The Other Half Marathon, 2004 & 2005
Boulder Backroads Half Marathon, 2003
Salt Lake City Marathon, 2004
Berlin Half Marthon, 2005
Batavierenrace, 2005
Goblin Valley 50K, 2005
Bonneville Shoreline Trail Marathon, 2006

While running is certainly the most fun I have outside of academics, with conference deadlines,
paper deadlines and a dissertation to write there often isn't time for anything but research.

Links to conferences that I've enjoyed:
VisionSciences Society Conference ,
Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization
SIGGRAPH
Medicine Meets Virtual Reality.

Academic advisors and mentors:
Roger Webster, Millersville University 1997-2001
Sarah Creem-Regehr , University of Utah, 2003-present
William Thompson , University of Utah 2002-present
Bernhard Riecke , MPI, Biological Cybernetics, 2005