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In an article published recently in the Adirondack Almanack (Saranac Lake, N.Y.), Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology Emeritus, said that although the Northeast saw more monarch butterflies in 2019, the monarch population overall continues to decline.
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Though she found her job “through a happy coincidence,” it’s clear that the power of the Hamilton alumni-student network and a palpable enthusiasm for biology led Amelia Boyd ’20 to her upcoming position as an allergist research assistant.
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Bioethics students try their hand at podcasting to address topics such as stem cell therapy, predicting criminality, and data privacy.
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Lea Barros ’22 was recently recognized with an award at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students.
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A study on transgenics in maize by Assistant Professor of Biology Natalie Nannas and her colleagues at the University of Georgia was published in the journal Plant Cell earlier this year.
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At the invitation of the Rochester, N.Y., office of The Nature Conservancy, Ernest Williams recently presented “What's Happening to Monarchs?” at the Jewish Community Center in Brighton, N.Y.
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Assistant Professor of Biology Natalie Nannas along with collaborators at the University of Georgia recently won a four-year National Science Foundation Grant for a project titled "Rebuilding a kinesin-based meiotic drive system from defined component."
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“The effects of body mass on immune cell concentrations of mammals,” led by Assistant Professor of Biology Cynthia Downs, was recently published online by The American Naturalist.
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Participating in the Digestive Disease Summer Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital this summer has solidified Ishan Bhatia’s ’20 desire to conduct cancer research and attend medical school.
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Assistant Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend and her colleagues sampled the blood cholesterol levels of 140 crow nestlings along an urban-to-rural gradient in California, returning to track their survival rates after they fledged. They found that the more urban the environment, the higher the blood cholesterol of the crow nestlings raised there.
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