Fraser joined the department of chemistry at the
University of Virginia in 1995. As a full professor of chemistry, Fraser led a graduate student laboratory where she co-developed one class of biomaterials with the potential to impact imaging techniques. She also crossed a light-emitting dye with a corn-based polymer which revealed that the biomaterial not only had bright fluorescence when exposed to ultraviolet light but also had vivid phosphorescence. She tested whether the oxygen nanosensor that couples a light-emitting dye with a biopolymer could improve tumor imaging. In 2010, Fraser and her graduate student Guoqing Zhang focused on synthesizing and fabricating light-emitting biomaterials and chemicals. They co-founded Luminesco, a company, with the idea that these compounds could be used as high-tech "mechanosensors" and possibly in forensic and security applications. Following this, she was chosen to be an inaugural member of the University Academy of Teaching. As a result of her research, Fraser was elected a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2017, Fraser was one of three professors awarded the
Jefferson Scholars Foundation's Excellence in Teaching Award. ==References==