Dr Throneburg is currently the Department Chair of Communication Disorder and Sciences.   She joined the faculty at EIU in the fall of 1995 as an instructor.  She helped establish the departmental honor's program in CDS and then served as the departmental honor's coordinator for 10 years.  She also helped establish  EIU's first hybrid master's degree program and served as the departmental graduate coordinator for the traditional and hybrid master's degree programs.  She has taught many different courses in the CDS department, some of which include the graduate research methods and graduate research experience courses, a graduate course in motor speech disorders, a graduate course in pediatric speech sound disorders, a graduate course in stuttering, undergraduate courses in normal language acquisition, phonology disorders, departmental honor's seminar, aural rehabilitation, and four graduate special topic or seminar courses in literacy and phonological awareness.   She also regularly provided clinical instruction and supervision to graduate and undergraduate students treating clients in the EIU Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic.

As department chair, Dr. Throneburg worked with members of CDS faculty associated with the Autism Center to obtain regular grant funding from The Autism Program of Illinois (TAP). She and other CDS faculty also developed collaboration with faculty at the University of West Indies and SLPs in Trinidad to help them build capacity to offer more services and to give EIU students therapy abroad opportunities.

Dr Throneburg enjoys mentoring students in research at EIU. She has directed or co-directed more than 40 undergraduate honor's and master's theses and has mentored hundreds of clinical research projects in the research experience course. She was a co-investigator for 6 years on a large grant entitled "Subtypes and Associated Risk Factors in Stuttering" from the National Institutes of Health (NIDCD) with the PI from the University of Illinois and other co-investigators at University of Iowa, University of Wisconsin, and Northern Illinois University.  She has co-authored one book and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.

Dr Throneburg learned from her department chairs over the years (Robert Augustine, Mary Ann Hanner, and Gail Richard) the value of meaningful service contributions to the department, the university, as well as state and national professional organizations.  She and Karla Sanders, with the help of a small group of EIU faculty, headed the initiative to offer dual credit partnerships with high schools.  She has served on numerous campus committees including the Committee for the Assessment of Student Learning, the Committee on Academic Affairs, the Honor's Council, the self-study leadership committee for EIU's reaffirmation of accreditation from the North Central Association of the Higher Learning Comission, two On-Line Learning committees, the Council for Faculty Research, the Commencement Committee, Writing Across the Curriculum, the Undergraduate Research Council, and the College of Science Technology Committee.  Professional service includes six years on the Executive Board for the Illinois Speech and Hearing Association (ISHA) in two different vice-presidential roles, and various other committees and roles such as a reviewer for professional journals and conference presentations.

Dr Throneburg has received numerous awards at Eastern Illinois University numerous awards at Eastern Illinois University including several Achievement and Contribution Awards, the Distinguished Honor's Faculty Award, the Alan and Carlene Baharlou Distinguished Service Award, and the Luis Clay Mendez Distinguished Service Award.  She was honored by being named as a Fellow of the Illinois Speech Language Hearing Association (ISHA) and received the Illinois Clinical Achievement Award from ISHA.