Fish Out of Water: Keck Grant Helps Biologist Wade into Evolution Pool

With a $1.4 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, Biology Professor Sandy Kawano will take giant leaps toward understanding how amphibious ancestors took small steps onto land.

February 1, 2025

Illustration of early tetrapods and tetrapod-like fishes.

In her Fins and Limbs Lab at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS), George Washington University Assistant Professor of Biology Sandy Kawano uncovers how our early ancestors took their first steps—or strokes or slithers—out of the sea and onto the land.

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