Archive: Biology
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Creating Cicada Curiosity: Biology Professor Launches Children’s Resource on Upcoming 17-Year Emergence
In May of this year, the United States’ east coast will experience a recurring phenomenon that takes place nowhere else in the world: the emergence of the 17 year cicada. Martha Weiss, a professor in the Department of Biology, and co-director of the Environmental Studies Program, has partnered with George Washington University biology professor John Lill, as well as environmental educator Diane Lill and post-doctoral associate Zoe Getman-Pickering, to create a comprehensive guide to cicadas for elementary and middle school students in the hopes of garnering appreciation for these complex critters.
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Study by Georgetown Professors, Graduate Students Reveals How Societies Have Survived Climate Change
A team of Georgetown professors and graduate students recently collaborated with researchers in Europe and China on a paper that examines an interdisciplinary field of study they coined the History of Climate and Society (HCS).
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Biology PhD Student Recipient of 2020 GBIF Young Researchers Award
Vaughn Shirey, a PhD student in the Department of Biology, is one of two winners of the 2020 Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Young Researchers Awards. An expert jury has recognized Shirey for their effort to address data bias while modeling the long-term impacts of climate and land-use change on the butterflies that inhabit the boreal forests of North America and northern Europe.
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New College Faculty for 2020-2021
Georgetown College is pleased to welcome 24 new full-time faculty members with primary appointments in 16 College departments and programs. This cohort will help enrich the student experience through their varied and nuanced areas of study.
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Hidden Movements of Small Songbird Have Important Climate Change Implications
State-of-the-art tracking technology reveals previously unknown long-distance movements of Kirtland’s warblers during mating season that have important conservation and climate change implications for North American birds, according to a new study co-authored by a Georgetown professor.
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Georgetown Creates New Course for Students Returning from Study Abroad that Analyzes COVID-19
Georgetown University was one of a few institutions to create a new academic term specifically for students who were asked to return home from their study abroads due to COVID-19. One new course being offered during this term is called COVID-19: Theory and Action in a Time of Pandemic that allows the student to study the virus comprehensively in real time.
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An Infectious Disease Researcher Answers Questions About COVID-19
Department of Biology professor Shweta Bansal, head of the disease ecology and research lab at Georgetown, has created a list of answers to COVID-19 FAQs for our students, faculty and staff. Her rese
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Three College Professors Honored at Faculty Convocation & Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Awards
Nathan Hensley (Department of English), Catherine Keesling (Department of Classics), and Manus Patten (Department of Biology) will receive the prestigious Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award at Faculty Convocation. This award is given to those faculty members who have demonstrated that they are exceptional educators deeply committed to enriching the undergraduate experience.
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Justinianic Plague Not a Landmark Pandemic?
Until recently, the Justinianic Plague was thought to have killed up to half of the population of the Mediterranean between 541 and 750 CE. Departments of Biology and History professor Tim Newfield and a team of interdisciplinary researchers analyzed diverse datasets which evidence landscape, economic and demographic trends and found that this disease outbreak likely resulted in far fewer deaths than previously imagined.
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Scientists Mark First Evidence That Dolphins Give Birth in Potomac River
The first evidence that the Potomac River is a breeding area for wild bottlenose dolphins has been gathered by graduate students working with Georgetown biologist and dolphin expert Janet Mann.
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