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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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A new study from The Auk: Ornithological Advances tracks where American Crows go during the winter and shows that while individuals are consistent in whether they migrate or stay put, partial migration might give them enough flexibility to adapt to changing environmental conditions.
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Hamilton College’s highest awards for teaching were presented to Katheryn Doran, Kira Jumet, Andrea Townsend, Cindy Domack, and Colette Gilligan.
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A podcast of an interview with Assistant Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend is featured on Ray Brown’s “Talkin’ Birds” website. “Why Study Crows?” was recorded at the 2017 Mass Audubon Annual Birders’ Meeting.
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Assistant Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend presented an invited lecture at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center in Washington, D.C., on March 23.
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Assistant Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend was recently awarded a $25,400 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support her project “Collaborative Research: Quantifying conserved genomic regions at the within-species level.”
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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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Assistant Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend was a plenary speaker at the 2017 Birders Meeting of the Massachusetts Audubon Society on March 19th in Boston.
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Assistant Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend presented a talk titled “Prevalence, pathogenic potential, and fitness consequences of Campylobacter infection on migratory crows” at the 2016 meeting of the North American Ornithological Congress (NAOC) in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 17.
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