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Students kept busy as they wrapped up the fall semester and over winter break. Read about what some of them did.
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Six Hamilton students — Lara Barreira ’25, Nikki Conlogue 25, Miranda Gregory ’25, Kelvin Nunez ’24, Christina Stoll ’25, and Mimosa Van ’26 — are studying abroad this semester, thanks to assistance from Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships.
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As Associate Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend was investigating how infectious disease affects the problem-solving performance of American crows, she was surprised to discover how few studies compared the effects of disease on cognition in other species.
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As a child, Pyu Pyu Win ’24 and her family immigrated to the United States from Myanmar. They stopped in Illinois and Indiana before settling in Utica, N.Y., where The Young Scholars Liberty Partnerships Program (YSLPP), a collaborative project established between Utica University and the Utica City School District, helped Win navigate her education and ultimately become a Hamilton student.
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Assistant Professor of Biology Rhea Datta recently published a paper in the journal Development. Titled "Multi-level regulation of even-skipped stripes by the ubiquitous factor Zelda*", the paper examines how particular, short, DNA sequences are regulated so that gene expression can be precisely controlled during embryonic development.
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Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology Emeritus, wrote the foreword for a new book titled "Butterflies of Maine and the Canadian Maritime Provinces."
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Genetic inheritance might seem straightforward enough. Middle schoolers around the country learn the formulaic predictions of Punnett Squares, and for the most part, the science appears cut-and-dry. Chromosomes passed on through sperm or eggs have a 50-50 shot at inheritance. Right?
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Zander Harpel ’23, Jacob Circelli ’20, Stephanie Wu ’21, and Professor of Biology Wei-Jen Chang are co-authors of an article that was recently published by PLOS ONE.
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Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology Emeritus, recently traveled to Billings, Mont., where he presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Lepidopterists’ Society.
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An article by Associate Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend and co-authors Caroline Chivily ’19 and Casey McAndrews ’21, among others, appears in the June issue of Molecular Ecology.
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