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Susan Loepp is the William Dwight Whitney Professor of Mathematics at Williams College. After earning her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994 and completing a two-year postdoctoral position at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she joined the Williams College Department of Mathematics in 1996. Susan’s research area is commutative algebra and her recent research interests include constructing Noetherian rings that behave nicely algebraically but have strange prime ideal structures. In addition to working on research with her colleagues, Susan’s passions include advising undergraduate research projects in commutative algebra. To date, she has advised the research of 75 undergraduate students resulting in more than 30 papers published in mathematics research journals. Susan is also interested in cryptography and error correction. She coauthored the book Protecting Information: From Classical Error Correction to Quantum Cryptography with William Wootters.