Award-winning SPU professor presents latest research

For more than 15 years,  SPU 教授essor of Biology Cara Wall-Scheffler has researched human locomotion, studying differences in how men and women walk, 运行, 扛起重担. Her work has been published in numerous papers and covered in the media. 她 recently won a prestigious award for her research and mentorship of undergraduate students as well as a Fulbright Fellowship to continue her work in the Anthropology Department at Charles University in Prague.

教授. Wall-Scheffler will present her latest research examining how women’s “endurance mobility has shaped the evolution of our entire human species" at a public lecture Tuesday, 1月. 17, 2023, at 6 p.m. in Upper Gwinn Commons, Queen Anne Room. The lecture is free and open to the public and livestreamed at http://youtu.是/ dOZ0nK3bOgs.

In recognition of her research and mentorship of undergraduate students, she received the 2022 Lynwood W. Swanson Scientific Research Award from M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, which recognizes a senior faculty member with an established, 富有成效的, and nationally recognized research program. 她 will begin her Fulbright Fellowship this year.

Wall-Scheffler, an alumna of 西雅图 Pacific, has been a faculty member since 2007. 她 received a master of philosophy and doctorate from the University of Cambridge in England.

For more information and to request disability accommodation, contact the Office of the Provost at 206-281-2125.

Posted: Saturday, 1月uary 7, 2023