# Sharon Emerson

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'''Sharon B. Emerson''' (born 1945) is an American [biologist](/source/biologist) and was a research professor emeritus at the [University of Utah](/source/University_of_Utah).

In 1993, she was chair of the Division of Vertebrate Morphology of the [American Society of Zoologists](/source/American_Society_of_Zoologists).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1995_1280028/2-texans-among-list-of-winners-of-macarthur-grants.html |title=2 Texans among list of winners of MacArthur grants |website=www.chron.com |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018230319/http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1995_1280028/2-texans-among-list-of-winners-of-macarthur-grants.html |archive-date=18 October 2012 |url-status=dead|date=1995-06-13}}</ref>
She taught at [University of Illinois, Chicago](/source/University_of_Illinois%2C_Chicago).<ref>{{cite web |title=UIC Gender & Women's Studies |url=http://www.uic.edu/depts/wsweb/program/history.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528044116/http://www.uic.edu/depts/wsweb/program/history.htm |archive-date=2010-05-28 |accessdate=25 October 2018 |website=Uic.edu}}</ref>

==Awards==
*1995 [MacArthur Fellows Program](/source/MacArthur_Fellows_Program)

==Works==
*[http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119842410/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 "The ecomorphology of Bornean tree frogs (family Rhacophoridae)"]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, ''Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'', Volume 101 Issue 4, Pages 337 - 357
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=kgou0QU8t-YC&pg=PA123 "Allometric Prey of Predator-Prey Interactions"], ''Ecological morphology: integrative organismal biology'', Editors Peter Cam Wainwright, Stephen M. Reilly, University of Chicago Press, 1994, {{ISBN|9780226869957}}

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==External links==
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