Sharon B. Emerson (born 1945) is an American

biologist A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual cell, a multicellular organism, or a community of interacting populations. They usually specialize ...

and was a research professor emeritus at the

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

. In 1993, she was chair of the Division of Vertebrate Morphology of the

American Society of Zoologists The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology is organized to integrate the many fields of specialization which occur in the broad field of biology.. The society was formed in 1902 as the American Society of Zoologists, through the merger of ...

. She taught at

University of Illinois, Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illin ...

Awards

*1995

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

Works

"The ecomorphology of Bornean tree frogs (family Rhacophoridae)"
''Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'', Volume 101 Issue 4, Pages 337 - 357
"Allometric Prey of Predator-Prey Interactions"
''Ecological morphology: integrative organismal biology'', Editors Peter Cam Wainwright, Stephen M. Reilly, University of Chicago Press, 1994,

References

20th-century American zoologists University of Illinois Chicago faculty University of Utah faculty MacArthur Fellows Living people 1945 births Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American women biologists Women zoologists American women academics 21st-century American women 20th-century American women scientists {{US-zoologist-stub