Boggs appointed director of Program in Human Biology
Carol Boggs
Carol L. Boggs, professor (teaching) of biological sciences, has been named director of the Program in Human Biology, effective Sept. 1. She has been teaching and working with students in the program for nearly two decades and received an outstanding faculty adviser award in 2001.
An evolutionary ecologist, Boggs was director of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology from 1995 to 2006. Her current research includes an interdisciplinary feasibility study on the restoration of the endangered Bay checkerspot butterfly to Stanford lands. The insect went extinct on campus in 1998.
A fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boggs has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals and on the advisory board of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado, as well as that of other organizations.
Administered by the School of Humanities and Sciences, Human Biology is an undergraduate program whose mission is to provide an interdisciplinary approach to understanding humans from biological, behavioral, social and cultural perspectives. Faculty members are drawn from the schools of Medicine, Engineering, Earth Sciences, Education, and Humanities and Sciences.