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I got my bachelor's degree in physics at Mount Holyoke College, and my master's and PhD in physics at Yale. I did a postdoc at Fermi National Accelerator Lab. My first faculty position was at the University of Oklahoma, where I stayed six years. I then moved to Northern Illinois University, where I finished out my career. I worked on experiments at Fermilab, the ill-fated supercollider that was to have been built in Texas, and the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. After some years i moved away from research and into administration, serving as Faculty Senate president, associate dean oof the graduate school, and department chair. I grew to love teaching, and during my last few years taught many courses, some of my own creation.
My personal life was not so successful; my son Leo was born during my second marriage, but my only marriage that really worked was my fourth and last, to Frank O'Barski, whom I'd met during our senior year but had lost track of when we went to college. We reunited in 2008, and had 8 wonderful years together until his death in 2016.
My son is doing well; he got married last December to a wonderful Indonesian woman he met during study abroad. Right now they are living in Indonesia, where he has a job teaching English.
