Dr. Tauer earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963. After serving as a professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics at the College of St. Catherine, she received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University in 1982, with a specialty in biomedical ethics. In 1978 Dr. Tauer instituted a course in Biomedical Ethics at the College of St. Catherine. She acts as an Ethics Consultant for a number of Twin Cities local hospitals. In 1994, she was appointed to the National Institutes of Health Human Embryo Research Panel. This Panel was charged to recommend ethical guidelines for Federal funding of research on infertility and early embryonic development. In 1999, she was again appointed to an NIH panel, the Working Group of the ACD to Develop Guidelines and Oversight for Pluripontetial Stem Cell Research.

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