 From 2002 to 2012, she was the Charles R. Walgreen Jr., Professor of Geology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.From 1995 to 2000 she held a MacArthur Fellowship.