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= Cara Wall-Scheffler = Cara Wall-Scheffler has been a professor at Seattle Pacific University since 2007 and has made contributions to understanding the differences in gait between men and women, how people carry infants , and the energetics of running. She teaches biological anthropology, environmental physiology, evolutionary mechanisms, human physiology, women in science as well as scientific literature. Wall-Scheffler values academic freedom and the love of learning, and saw these qualities to be present at SPU. While teaching biology at Seattle Pacific University, Wall-Scheffler has increased awareness of the disparities of women in science both historically as well as a current issue. Wall-Scheffler is connected to many other women in STEM careers, and often invites them to discuss their life paths to scientific careers as well as their research as a method of understanding how women in science have become successful. Some of the people she has had speak to her students include, but are not limited to: Ada Kaliszewska, Jo Taylor, Abi Curtis, Olivia Lenz, Katie Peichel, and Holly Janes. Because science is done by people, Wall-Scheffler makes a point that her students pay attention to the individuals who have contributed to the articles studied in her classes.

Education and Training
Wall-Scheffler received her BA in Biology, Anthropology, and Literature at Seattle Pacific University in 2000. Following this, she received a MPhil in the Department of Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in 2001. She then pursued and completed her PhD in the department of Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and earned the title of a Gates Cambridge Scholar by 2005. During her stay at Cambridge she was supervised by Professor Robert A. Foley.

Awards & Grants

 * 2013 - Principal Investigator, Sexual dimorphism’s role in the energetic and thermoregulatory variation of incline walking, MJ Murdock Charitable Trust
 * 2013 - Principal Investigator, Faculty Research Grant: How does pregnancy change the shape of women’s pelves?
 * 2013 - Co-Principal Investigator, BioLogos Foundation: Equipping the Next Generation of Paleobiologists
 * 2012 - 2011-2012 Professor of the Year, Seattle Pacific University
 * 2011 - Principal Investigator, Faculty Research Grant: Interactive effects of locomotion and reproduction on women’s energetics
 * 2010 - 2009-2010 Junior Faculty Service Award
 * 2010 - Collaborator/Consultant, 3M Collaborative Research Grant, St Catherine University: Where to Carry Kids: A Comparison of Women and Men During Walking
 * 2010 - 2009-2010 Teacher of the Year in Science and Technology, Seattle Pacific University
 * 2009 - Principal Investigator, Faculty Research Grant: Can we use faunal remains to assess seasonal shifts in climate? Blakely deer as test of climatic shifts in hard tissue remains
 * 2007 - Principal Investigator, Research Start-Up Grants for New Science Faculty, MJ Murdock Charitable Trust
 * 2007 - Collaborator/Consultant, NIH: Belly mass in walking women: Effects of loads on kinematics and energetics, #G11HD039786
 * 2003-2004 - Principal Investigator, Gates Cambridge Trust: Coastal Ungulates: The Seasonal Use of Ibex and Barbary Sheep among Mediterranean Hominins 2003 Principal Investigator, Lundgren Research Fund: Subsistence Strategies of Mediterranean Hominins
 * 2003 - Principal Investigator, Travel Award, Gates Cambridge Trust: The Seasonality of Site Use of Gibraltar Neanderthals
 * 2003 - Principal Investigator, Travel Award, Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge: The Seasonality of Site Use of Gibraltar Neanderthals 2003 Principal Investigator, Tutorial Award, St Edmunds College: The Seasonality of Site Use of Gibraltar Neanderthals
 * 2002-2003 - Overseas Scholarship, St Edmunds College 2002 Principal Investigator, Research Bursary, St Edmunds College: Seasonality of Neanderthal Site Use
 * 2001-2003 - Principal Investigator, Gates Cambridge Trust, Appointment as Gates Cambridge Scholar: Seasonal Use of Sites by MIS 3 Neanderthals
 * 2000-2001 - Overseas Scholar Award, University of Cambridge

Peer-Reviewed Papers

 * Wall-Scheffler, C.M. (2014). The balance between burden carrying, variable terrain and thermoregulatory pressures in assessing morphological variation. In K. Carlson & D. Marchi (Eds), The Influence of Environmental Factors on Mobility-Morphology-Behaviour Relationships. Springer Life Sciences.
 * Wagnild, J. & Wall-Scheffler, C.M. (2013). Energetic consequences of human sociality: Walking speed choices among friendly dyads. PLoS One 8(10): e76576. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076576 Wall-Scheffler, C.M. & Myers, M.J. (2013). Reproductive costs for everyone: How female frontal loads impact mobility. Journal of Human Evolution 64(5): 448-456. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248413000328
 * Wall-Scheffler, C.M. (2012). Energetics, locomotion and female reproduction: Implications for human evolution. Annual Review of Anthropology 41: 71-85. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092611-145739
 * Wall-Scheffler, C.M. (2012). The meaning of within population dimorphism for group mobility: Can men and women walk together? Journal of Anthropology 2012: 340493. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/janth/aip/340493/ Willcockson, M.* & Wall-Scheffler, C.M. (2012). Reconsidering the effects of respiratory constraints on the optimal running speed. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 44(7): 1344-1350. http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0b013e318248d907
 * Wall-Scheffler, C.M., Chumanov, E.S., Steudel-Numbers, K.L. & Heiderscheit, B.C. (2010). EMG activity across gait and incline: The impact of muscular activity on human morphology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 143(4): 601-611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21356
 * Steudel-Numbers, K.L. & Wall-Scheffler, C.M. (2009). Optimal running speed and the evolution of hominin hunting strategies. Journal of Human Evolution 56: 355-360. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.11.002
 * Chumanov, E.S., Wall-Scheffler, C.M., & Heiderscheit, B.C. (2008). Gender differences in walking and running on level and inclined surfaces. Clinical Biomechanics 23(10): 1260-1268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2008.07.011
 * Wall-Scheffler, C.M. & Foley, R.A. (2008). Digital Cementum Luminance Analysis (DCLA): A tool for the analysis of climatic and seasonal signals in dental cementum. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 18 (1): 11-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oa.918
 * Steudel-Numbers, K., Weaver, T., & Wall-Scheffler, C.M. (2007). The evolution of human running: Effects of changes in lower limb length on locomotor efficiency. Journal of Human Evolution 53(2): 191-196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.04.001
 * Tilkens, M.J., Wall-Scheffler, C.M., Weaver, T. & Steudel-Numbers, K. (2007). The effect of body proportions on thermoregulation: An experimental assessment of Allen’s Rule. Journal of Human Evolution 53(3): 286-291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.04.005
 * Wall-Scheffler, C.M. (2007). Digital Cementum Luminance Analysis and the Haua Fteah hominins: How seasonality and season of use changed through time. Archaeometry 49(4): 815-826. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-4754.2007.00342.x
 * Wall-Scheffler, C.M., Geiger, K.*, & Steudel-Numbers, K. (2007). Infant Carrying: The role of increased locomotory costs in early tool development. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 133(2): 841-846. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20603
 * Wall-Scheffler, C.M., Myers, M.J., & Steudel-Numbers, K. (2006). The application to bipeds of a geometric model of lower limb segment inertial properties. Journal of Human Evolution 51(3): 320-326. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.04.001
 * Wall, C.M. & Wall, Z.R. (2006). Research design in digital luminance analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 33(8): 1152-1156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2005.12.002
 * Wall, C.M. (2005). The seasonality of site deposition of Gibraltar Neanderthals: Evidence from Gorham’s and Vanguard Caves. Journal of Iberian Archaeology 7: 9-22.