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Sharon M. Swartz received her undergraduate training in Biology and Anthropology/Sociology at Oberlin College, graduating with Highest Honors in 1981. After time away from school, she pursued graduate study in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, completing her doctorate in 1988 with a focus on biomechanical approaches to understanding evolutionary patterns in the mammalian limb skeleton. In 1987, she joined the faculty at Northwestern University in the interdisciplinary Primate Biology Graduate Program. Throughout her career, she has turned her attention to primate locomotion and bat flight while maintaining active research interests in the fundamental aspects of size, scale, and the architecture of bones. Her work on bats encompasses the mechanical properties of bat wing tissues, dynamics of wing movements during flight, fluid dynamics of highly flexible airfoils, and the energetics of bat flight. She has numerous collaborations linking biology with engineering, computer science, and mathematics.
Department: Department of Economics