21 Facts About Ursula Goodenough

Ursula W Goodenough was born on March 16,1943 and is a retired Professor of Biology Emerita at Washington University in St Louis, where she researched on eukaryotic algae.

Ursula Goodenough authored the textbook Genetics and the best-selling book The Sacred Depths of Nature and speaks regularly about religious naturalist orientation and evolution.

Ursula Goodenough currently serves as president of the Religious Naturalist Association.

Goodenough, daughter of Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough and Evelyn Goodenough Pitcher, was born on March 16,1943, in New York City.

Ursula Goodenough was an assistant and associate professor of biology at Harvard from 1971 to 1978 before moving to Washington University.

Ursula Goodenough wrote three editions of a widely adopted textbook, Genetics.

Since 2013, Ursula Goodenough has been listed on the Advisory Council of the National Center for Science Education.

Ursula Goodenough joined the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science in 1989 and has served continuously on its council and as its president for four years.

Ursula Goodenough has presented papers and seminars on science and religion to numerous audiences, co-chaired six IRAS conferences on Star Island, and serves on the editorial board of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science.

Ursula Goodenough has written that women who are balancing the demands of raising children and developing a career need to understand that they can do both.

Ursula Goodenough says that realizing that a child's development is influenced by many people in their lives other than their mother has helped her achieve both her personal and professional goals.

Ursula Goodenough is the mother of five children born in 1970,1974,1980,1982, and 1985, respectively, and she has 9 grandchildren.

Ursula Goodenough was an Associate Professor of Anatomy at the Washington University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor of Cell Biology at Mt.

Ursula Goodenough joined physicist Claude Bernard and earth-scientist Michael Wysession for 10 years, teaching a course called The Epic of Evolution, directed at non-science majors.

In 2002, Ursula Goodenough was a member of a five-scientist panel invited by the Mind and Life Institute as part of an ongoing series of seminars on Western science for Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, and his inner circle of monk scholars.

Ursula Goodenough was invited back to Dharamsala, India, to lecture again in 2003.

Ursula Goodenough is a prominent advocate of the religious naturalist orientation, which explores the religious potential of our science-based understanding of nature.

Ursula Goodenough serves as president of the Religious Naturalist Association.

In 1995, Ursula Goodenough won the Founder's Day Distinguished Faculty Award from Washington University.

Ursula Goodenough won the Faculty Teaching Awards from Washington University in 1986 and 1994.

Ursula Goodenough became a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2013, and in 2017, she became a fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology.