About Ursula Goodenough
Ursula W. Goodenough (born March 16, 1943) is a retired Professor of Biology Emerita at Washington University in St. Louis, where she researched on eukaryotic algae. She authored the textbook Genetics and the best-selling book The Sacred Depths of Nature and speaks regularly about religious naturalist orientation and evolution. She contributed to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos & Culture from 2009 to 2011. She currently serves as president of the Religious Naturalist Association. In 2023, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. == Background and Education == Goodenough, daughter of Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough and Evelyn Goodenough Pitcher, was born on March 16, 1943, in New York City. She earned a B.A. in zoology from Barnard College in 1963, an M.A. in zoology at Columbia University in 1965, and a Ph.D. in biology at Harvard University in 1969. From 1963 to 1964, she was a Eugene Higgins Fellow at Columbia University and later became an NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Columbia and Harvard in 1964–1969. She was an assistant and associate professor of biology at Harvard from 1971 to 1978 before moving to Washington University.
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