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Ursula Goodenough

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Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences

Expertise: evolution of sex, speciation

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Ursula Goodenough
Ursula Goodenough
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Leading cell biologist and Washington University professor of biology Ursula Goodenough, is the author of a bestselling textbook, Genetics, and also wrote the popular discourse on religion and science The Sacred Depths of Nature, which was named Oustanding Academic Book of 1999 by Choice. She has served as president of the Society of Cell Biologists, and has also served as president of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science.

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Campus Box 1229
St. Louis, MO 63130

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Facing extinction

New book portrays day in the life of a bonobo (http://mednews.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/11970.html)

July 1, 2008 --
Image courtesy of Marian Brickner
A biologist at Washington University in St. Louis is the mastermind behind a project that has led to an informative book, aimed at children but appealing to all ages, on an endangered species of ape. Ursula Goodenough, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, is the driving force behind I'm Lucy, A Day in the Life of a Young Bonobo, written by Mathea Levine, Goodenough's daughter, and featuring the photographs of St. Louisan Marian Brickner. The book includes a convincing, impassioned Afterward by the famed primatologist Jane Goodall.


'The vision thing'

Gene senses odor, taste, provides color vision (http://mednews.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/6842.html)

April 3, 2006 --
<b>Pretty fly — for a fruit fly.</b> The areas stained blue are regions in the fruit fly where the spineless gene is expressed.
Pretty fly - for a fruit fly. The areas stained blue are regions in the fruit fly where the spineless gene is expressed.
A team of researchers that includes biologists from Washington University in St. Louis has discovered that a gene involved in the development and function of the fruit fly antenna also gives the organism its color vision. Claude Desplan, Ph.D., professor of biology at New York University, and his students made the discovery and provided the data. Ian Duncan, Washington University professor of biology, and his wife, research assistant Dianne Duncan, provided the Desplan laboratory fruit fly (Drosophila) clones and mutants and technical assistance that helped locate where the gene, called spineless, is expressed in the retina. More... (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/6842.html)


All-purpose thinkers

Public intellectuals topic of Feb. 12 "Conversation" (http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/667.html)

Feb. 3, 2004 -- Public intellectuals — a class of specialists, all-purpose thinkers — will gather from 10-11:30 a.m. Feb. 12 in Graham Chapel at Washington University in St. Louis to have a "Conversation" about, well, public intellectuals. As part of the university's yearlong 150th anniversary celebration, Arts & Sciences is sponsoring "Conversations," a four-part series bringing some of the nation's top scholars together to discuss key issues that will affect the future of the university, the community and the world.



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The New Theology
Chicago Tribune magazine

Jan. 22, 2008 -- The Chicago Tribune magazine story on the conflict between Darwin and theology. Ursula Goodenough professor of biology comments on the conflict.



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•Campus author for 'Ursula Goodenough' (http://record.wustl.edu/archive/1999/02-11-99/articles/goodenough.html)
•Goodenough's Web page (http://www.biology.wustl.edu/faculty/ursula.html)

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