Lara Ferry is the Senior Associate Dean for the Knowledge Enterprise in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and a President's Professor. In her administrative role she is focused on research, knowledge generation, and strategic initiatives for the New College. She holds an academic appointment in the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences. She is also a PLuS Alliance Fellow, a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, affiliated faculty with the Biodesign Institute and the Global Security Initiative, and honors faculty in Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University.
Prior to joining ASU in 2010, she was a member of the research faculty at San Jose State University and Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. Her research focuses on the evolution of jaws and their function in the aquatic realm, as well as the performance of biological materials.
Professor Ferry's research is within the field called Functional Morphology. Functional Morphology is the study of organism structure (i.e., anatomy) and function (e.g., how it works in a particular context). She is particularly interested in the evolution of jaws and novel structures associated with food acquisition. Her research uses primarily fishes, as they are the most diverse of all the vertebrates, and are the group in which jaws first evolved. Most of her work has focused on functional traits associated with aquatic prey capture and processing, as well as how fish generate water flow into the head and over the respiratory structures.
Please visit Ferry's Research Gate profile, or Google Scholar profile, for a full list of publications.
Please visit Ferry's Elsevier (Experts.ASU) site for a full list of grants and related activity
Summer 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 360 | Animal Physiology |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
LSC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BIO 592 | Research |
BIO 599 | Thesis |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LSC 394 | Special Topics |
LSC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BIO 592 | Research |
BIO 599 | Thesis |
Summer 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 360 | Animal Physiology |
LSC 493 | Honors Thesis |
FOR 493 | Honors Thesis |
LSC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LSC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
FOR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
LSC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
FOR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BIO 592 | Research |
BIO 599 | Thesis |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LSC 493 | Honors Thesis |
FOR 493 | Honors Thesis |
LSC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
FOR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LSC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
FOR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
FOR 493 | Honors Thesis |
LSC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
FOR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LSC 493 | Honors Thesis |
FOR 493 | Honors Thesis |
ENV 497 | Honors Colloquium |
LSC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
FOR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LSC 484 | Internship |
LSC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
FOR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
FOR 493 | Honors Thesis |
LSC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
FOR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LSC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HON 272 | The Human Event |
LSC 394 | Special Topics |
LSC 493 | Honors Thesis |
LSC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 306 | Modes of Biological Thought |
LSC 484 | Internship |
LSC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Selected presentations relating to teaching and mentoring:
British Ecological Society (BES); Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology (SICB); American Society of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists (ASIH); American Elasmobranch Society (AES); Arizona Nevada Academy of Science (ANAS); ASU Faculty Women’s Association (FWA).
Honors Faculty, Barrett The Honors College; Graduate Faculty, Biology PhD; Graduate Faculty, Environmental Life Sciences PhD; Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability (sustainability.asu.edu); Affilated Faculty, Global Security Initiative (globalsecurity.asu.edu); Affilated Faculty, Biodesign Institute (biodesign.asu.edu)
Selected highlights
Silvergate Media, Octonauts Children’s Television Series (airing on Disney Channel), scientific support
2020 Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Certification, Arizona Assocation for Environmental Education (AAEE), and Visceral Change (VisceralChange.org)
2020 Global Advocacy Certificate Program (GACP), Arizona State University
2019 Advanced Leadership Institute (ALI), Cohort III, Arizona State University
2018 Midfulness Leadership Certification, ASU Center for Mindfulness, Compassion and Resilience