What do you do as a Curriculum and Accreditation Coordinator and what is your favorite part about your work?
I am my department’s go-to contact for all things curriculum-related. I oversee our graduate program, Sustainable Forest Management, schedule all FE and FOR courses and manage the ABET and SAF accreditation processes for the Forest Engineering & Forestry undergraduate degrees. I love that my role gives me the opportunity to work with students, staff and faculty every day, which means that each day is likely to bring its own adventure and require unique action on my part.
What is one of your favorite memories from your time working in the COF?
See, having worked here as long as I have, there are a lot of memories to choose from! It’s a toss-up between having colleagues help with my wedding (John Bailey officiated and Jessica Fontaine helped coordinate it), taking part in outrageous Halloween costumes with my FERM team (the colonial men will always be my favorite) and getting the opportunity to travel to Sweden last summer.
What do you like to do in your free time?
When I’m not up to my eyeballs in homework (yes, I’m working towards a master’s degree), I love to read and take a lot of camping trips with my husband, pups and family throughout the year. The last few years we’ve been trying to visit at least one national park (or really cool landmark) a year. Going on a night-time kayak float with manatees in Florida and having bears in our campsite near Glacier, Montana are some of the memories that have really stuck with me so far.
If you could have any superpower, what would it be and how would you use it?
As a sister who was exposed to Marvel and DC by her older brother and who is a nerd for anything magical or mythology related, you’d think I would know exactly whose powers I would steal…Chronokinesis is so cool to me – the ability to manipulate and control any element of time. But Azazel from the X-Men comics is probably who I would want to be. He can teleport, shapeshift, use telepathy and is immortal. Do I want to live forever? No. But I think it would be so great to teleport because I would always be on time. Being telepathic would also make me a pretty valuable (and only slightly dangerous) colleague!
What’s your favorite book or movie genre or your all-time favorite title?
I love comedies and romance, both in books and movies. “Young Frankenstein” is easily in my top five movies of all time, right up there with “What Dreams May Come” and “The Wedding Date”. That said, there are few movies that I watch religiously every year. Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings series are definitely favorites…even though the books were better.
