Jenny Tung
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Jenny Tung is an evolutionary anthropologist and geneticist. She is an Associate Professor of Biology at Duke University. In 2019, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
Tung is married to fellow Duke professor Sayan Mukherjee.
Tung earned a bachelor's degree in 2003 from Duke University. She remained at Duke for her graduate studies, obtaining a PhD in 2010. After a postdoc at the University of Chicago, she returned to Duke to join the faculty in 2012.'