Her father is a mathematics professor at Rutgers. Her mom teaches English composition at Rider University. So perhaps it's not surprising that in 1994 Laura Landweber landed a faculty position at Princeton University - she was 26 years old. "I got an offer to start a lab and I was just too excited to defer that," she says.
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