Professor Szkody uses a multiwavelength approach to study close binary stars with active mass transfer (Cataclysmic Variables). Her current research involves ultraviolet observations with the Hubble Space Telescope as well as APO and ground-based optical facilities around the world. She is currently finding the faintest, lowest mass transfer CVs leading to insights into the nature of mass transfer and accretion onto magnetic and non-magnetic white dwarfs, accretion disks and their X-ray-emitting boundary layers, stellar coronae, and the effects of irradiation on the upper atmospheres of late-type secondary stars.