{"id":248,"date":"2017-10-27T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-biology\/facultystaff\/sarahboyer\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:33:08","slug":"sarahboyer","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/biology\/facultystaff\/sarahboyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Boyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/macalester.edu\/boyerlab\">sites.google.com\/macalester.edu\/boyerlab<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Boyer is interested in the diversity and evolution of animal life. She takes a phylogenetic approach to questions in evolutionary biology, using both molecular and morphological data.\u00a0 Current research projects in her lab focus on understanding the evolution of mite harvesters (tiny arachnids) in New Zealand; this work is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.\u00a0 She and her students also\u00a0work\u00a0on reproductive biology of local daddy long-legs found on campus and at Ordway Field Station.\u00a0 Professor Boyer works closely with undergraduates in both lab and field settings and regularly publishes papers with student coauthors.\u00a0 She teaches Biodiversity and Evolution, one of the courses in the Department\u2019s core sequence, as well as upper-level courses in evolution and zoology and a non-majors\u2019 course, Creatures and Curiosities. Other interests include travel, novels, food, family, friends and the great outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>BA: Swarthmore College, 1996<\/p>\n<p>MA: University of California Berkeley, 1998<\/p>\n<p>PhD: Harvard University, 2007<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1589,"template":"","class_list":["post-248","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/248\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}