Through extraordinary focus and a zest for discovery, Karen became the first female professor to receive tenure in the UW-Madison Department of Zoology, the department she later served as the first female chairperson. Over 30-years of teaching and research, Professor Steudel introduced thousands of undergraduates to the mechanisms that underlie the living world and pushed the boundaries of how we understand locomotion, human evolution, and the role of women in academia.
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