While Coeur dAlene, Idaho, and Seattle, Wash., are not that far apart in miles, the distance for Carrie (Sturts) Dossick is huge in terms of career path traveled. Still, the dancer-turned-engineering professor sees a link between her two very different passions.
By age three, Dossick had already started ballet, tap and modern dance in a dance company in her native Coeur dAlene, likely thinking thats what she would do when she grew up. Today, at age 32, she is a Ph.D. civil engineer and an assistant professor in Seattle at the University of Washingtons Dept. of Construction Management. And even with her technical bent, dance is still in the picture.