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'I came into Hamilton with a scientific mind and felt like it would be a waste of a liberal arts degree if I left with the same scientific mind. Women’s and gender studies broadens my horizons, and each class challenges me to see the world in a new way.'
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The Hamilton in NYC program continued its exploration of urban ecology on Feb. 7 with a guest presentation from Andrea Townsend, Hamilton assistant professor of biology. Townsend, whose research deals with urban bird ecology, gave a talk titled "The Urban Exploiter: what makes an urban animal?"
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The Hamilton in NYC Program is off to a busy and exciting start. On Jan. 31, the group met with David Maddox, founder and director of the Nature of Cities, “an international platform to share diverse, transformative ideas about cities as ecosystems of people, nature, and infrastructure.”
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“Mexico’s logging threatens butterflies,” co-authored by William R. Kenan Professor of Biology Emeritus Ernest Williams, was published as the lead letter in the Nov. 24th issue of the journal Science.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Simon Coppard was a co-author of a paper that was awarded a Smithsonian 2017 Secretary’s Research Prize in recognition of excellence in recent research.
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Associate Professor of Biology Mike McCormick and Sciences Instrumentation Technician Bruce Wegter were co-authors of an article published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography.
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Natalie Nannas’ Bioethics class joined descendants of Henrietta Lacks in a conversation about their family’s story on Sept. 29. After reading and discussing Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the class generated questions for Victoria Baptiste and Alfred Carter Jr, a great-granddaughter and grandson of Henrietta Lacks.
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More than 65 years after the passing of Henrietta Lacks, members of her family Victoria Baptiste and Alfred Carter, Jr. spoke on the dark reality behind the usage of Henrietta’s cells in medical research. The two presented a lecture and discussion in the Chapel on Sept. 21.
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An article about monarch butterfly mortality and salvage logging in Mexico, co-authored by Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology Emeritus and lecturer in biology, appears in the fall issue of American Entomologist.
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Working with Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Simon Coppard, Tayzia Santiago ’19 spent time this summer studying how sea cucumbers cope with increasing temperatures in oceans.
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