Michelle Lampl, Ph.D.

Professor Lampl is currently the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her interests include human growth and development, saltatory growth; nutrition; medical anthropology; paleoanthropology.  Her publications include "Saltation and Stasis:  A model of human growth," Science (1992, 258:801-803);  "Is Growth Saltatory?" Endocrinology (1996, 137:5197-5204); "Patterns of Ontogeny in Human Evolution," Yearbook of Physical Anthropology (1990, 33:111-150); "Problems in the Aging of Skeletal Juveniles," American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1996, 101, 345-355).