Dr. Peggy Wright received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Fisheries and Wildlife from the University of Missouri in Columbia.
She completed her graduate research at the U.S.G.S. Columbia Environmental Research Center, where she studied the reproductive effects of TCDD and other dioxin-like compounds on salmonids such as rainbow trout.
She first served as the Science Lab Coordinator at Columbia College, and taught as an adjunct for several years before beginning her current position as Professor of Biology.