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Emily Carrington

Study Abroad Program Faculty

Biography

Dr. Emily Carrington completed her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences at Cornell University in 1985. She received her Ph.D. in 1992 from Stanford University, where she studied the biomechanics and ecophysiology of wave-swept organisms with Mark Denny. She was a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia, working with John Gosline on the biomechanics of mussel attachment. In 1996, she became an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Rhode Island and was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2003. She moved west in 2005 to join the Department of Biology and the Friday Harbor Laboratories at the University of Washington.

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