She is a professor of physics and associate dean of the College of Arts and Science at Miami University in Ohio.
After earning a master's degree in physics in 1994 from the University of Minnesota, she continued there for a Ph.D. in science education, completed in 1997.
[2] After working as a secondary-school science teacher at Saint Mary's School (Raleigh, North Carolina) and as a mathematics lecturer at Durham Technical Community College, she became an assistant professor of physics in 2001 at the University of Maine at Farmington.
[2] Blue was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2023, after a nomination from the APS Forum on Diversity and Inclusion, "for conducting pioneering investigations into gender dynamics in physics and providing highly effective advocacy for marginalized communities in physics and astronomy".
[3] She is the recipient of the 2024 Homer L. Dodge Citation for Distinguished Service to AAPT, “for her long standing leadership in pioneering efforts to establish, and encourage others to establish, a sound research basis that will lead to solving the issue of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the study of physics”.