Background
Ursula Goodenough was born March on 16, 1943, in Queens Village, New York, United States. Her parents were Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough and Evelyn Goodenough Pitcher.
Ursula attended Radcliffe College in 1960-61.
Ursula studied at Barnard College and received B.A. in 1963.
Ursula finished Columbia University with M.A. in 1965.
Ursula finished Harvard University with Ph.D.
Ursula attended Radcliffe College in 1960-61.
Ursula studied at Barnard College and received B.A. in 1963.
Ursula finished Harvard University with Ph.D.
Goodenough, with her daughter Mathea, and Harry Belafonte at Goodenough's home on Martha's Vineyard.
Ursula Goodenough in Dharamsala, India with the Dalai Lama.
Ursula Goodenough in Dharamsala, India with Richard Gere, Eric Lander and a Buddhist Bhikkhu.
Ursula finished Columbia University with M.A. in 1965.
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Ursula Goodenough was born March on 16, 1943, in Queens Village, New York, United States. Her parents were Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough and Evelyn Goodenough Pitcher.
Ursula attended Radcliffe College in 1960-61. She studied at Barnard College and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1963. She also finished Columbia University with Master of Arts and Harvard University with Ph.D.
Ursula Goodenough was an assistant and associate professor of biology at Harvard from 1971-1978 before moving to Washington University. She wrote three editions of a widely adopted textbook, Genetics. D. J. Cove called Genetics a “ ‘Let’s start with DNA’ book.” Cove also said Goodenough provides up-to-date information on the analysis and handling of DNA “building on the strength of the molecular and microbial side of her earlier editions.” She authored many academic papers and articles published in professional journals.
Goodenough joined the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) in 1989 and has served continuously on its council and as its president for four years. She 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.
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 stayed at Dharamsala, India to lecture in 2003. She and colleagues have studied the molecular basis and evolution of life-cycle transitions in the flagellated green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Ursula Goodenough is known primarily as the author of the best-selling book The Sacred Depths of Nature. She also has presented the paradigm of Religious Naturalism and the Epic of Evolution in numerous venues around the world. Besides, Goodenough is the president of the Religious Naturalist Association.
Since 2013, Ursula Goodenough has been listed on the Advisory Council of the National Center for Science Education.
Ursula Goodenough believes, that women balancing the demands of raising children and developing a career need to understand that they can do both. She says that a child's development is influenced by many people in their lives other than their mother.
Ursula was a member of American Society of Cellular Biologists (later, president). She was also elected a Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology in 2013.
Quotes from others about the person
“Goodenough forges a kind of religious naturalism that will not be unfamiliar to readers of New Age literature,” wrote Gregory McNamee for Amazon.com.
On July 29, 1980 Ursula married John Edward Heuser. She is the mother of five children: Jason, Mathea, Jessica, Thomas, and James.
