Penny received her BS in Industrial Engineering (Montana State University, 2009) and her PhD in Bioengineering (University of Utah, 2018). Penny also worked for four years at the Idaho National Laboratory designing a new process line. Her PhD research applied a number of computational and imaging methods to improve our understanding of the initiation and progression of hip diseases affecting young, active populations. During her post-doctoral fellowship at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, Penny investigated fracture healing in patients using high-resolution imaging before returning to Utah to join the SCI Institute in November 2020.