• Randolph-Macon Woman's College
• B.S., University of Alabama, Department of Biology
• Ph. D., University of Texas at Austin, Department of Botany and Cell Research Institute

• University of Chicago: NIH Postdoctoral Trainee and Fellow, Department of Biophysics
• Kings College, University of London, England: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Medical Research Council, Department of Biophysics
• University of Chicago: Research Associate, Department of Medicine
• University of Alabama: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

• AAAS Fellow
• Sigma Xi
• Phi Kappa Phi

Selected Professional 
Activities

(past and present)

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Grant Reviewer: NSF, March of Dimes
• Board of Reviewers, Transactions of the American Microscopical Society (past)
• Editorial Board, University of Alabama Press (past)
• Reviewer: D. van Nostrand Company, Developmental Biology, Copeia, Acta Protozoologica, Journal of Industrial Microbiology, John Wiley & Sons , Journal of Protozoology/Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Oxford University Press, Jones and Barlett
• Editorial Consultant, Lecture Notebook for Molecular Cell Biology, W. H. Freeman (past)
• Membership Secretary, Society of Protozoologists (past)
• Secretary, International Society of Protistologists (formerly Society of Protozoologists) (past)

• Director, Optical Analysis Facility, 1980-2010
• Interim Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, Spring 2005, 2008-2010

• Cell Biology and Advanced Cell Biology
• Microscopical Techniques
• Data Presentation