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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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Brigit Humphreys ’21 is interning this summer with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Great Falls, Mont. There, she helps protect and support local wildlife.
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No one who knew Halle Becker ’15 in kindergarten should be surprised to hear that she’s in veterinary school. From her earliest days as a student she would would tell anyone who asked that she intended to be a vet some day. Now she's at Cornell.
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Teaching her intro to biology and intermediate genetics courses, Assistant Professor of Biology Natalie Nannas would find herself waving her hands a lot, and it wasn’t to capture her students’ attention.
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“The Butterflies (Lepidoptera) of an Isolated Island: Monhegan, Maine, by Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology Emeritus, was recently published online in Northeastern Naturalist.
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Having grown up in Boston, Katherine O’Malley ’19 knew the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute well. But little did she expect that she would begin her post-graduate career there. When she first arrived at Hamilton, she only knew that she wanted to study biology.
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“America’s Smallest Falcon is Getting Smaller,” an article appearing in the spring issue of Living Bird Magazine, references a paper co-authored by Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Christopher Briggs.
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Sarah Kane ’19 co-authored a paper titled “An Owner-Independent Investigation of Diabetes Alert Dog Performance” that was recently published in Frontiers of Veterinary Science.
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The respiratory disease center at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston seems to be a meeting point for Hamilton alumni, as Deb Gakpo ’19 is the third alumna to take a job there.
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