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Education

PhD. Biological Anthropology, University of Indiana, Bloomington

Background

Laurah's research and teaching interests are integrative and merge evolutionary biology, anthropology and endocrinology. She is in the process of publishing her dissertation research, which examined the evolutionary discordance in dietary fat, exercise, reproduction and breast cancer in modern, industrialized women. During Turner’s graduate career she pursued teaching and learning opportunities around the world, in both traditional and non-traditional class rooms. These experiences helped to develop a goal oriented, multi-disciplinary teaching approach. She has worked to employ methods that effectively transmit information in laboratory, and lecture, but can also be generalized to real life interactions.