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Academic Background

• PhD (1996) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Thesis: "Illustrating Transparency: communicating the 3D shape of layered transparent surfaces via texture"
  Advisors: Henry Fuchs and Stephen Pizer
  
• MS (1986) UCLA
  Thesis: "Computer Animation of Breaking Ocean Waves"
  Advisor: Jaques Vidal
  
• BA (1984) University of Massachusetts at Boston
  

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Honors

• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 1999
  Perceptual Issues in Data Visualization: Conveying 3D Shape and Depth through Texture
• McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, 2001-2003

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Journeys to Anahuac: An interactive multimedia project on the history of civilization in the valley of Mexico, developed by Tomás Filsinger (my husband) and Antonio Gonzalez, exhibited in the Electric Garden at SIGGRAPH 97.

Another example of their work is this kaleidoscope station, which they designed and built for the Children's Museum of Mexico City.

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Family

• A picture of my young lion tamer.
  
• Pictures of my big fellow and when he was little.
  
• Kid's Gallery
  

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Home

When I'm not working at work, I'm working at home! We're slowly renovating our old farmhouse in Victoria, MN. Stay tuned for before and after pictures.

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Fun

• Dogsledding at Wintergreen

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