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Information for
Students
OUTSTANDING
STUDENT PRESENTATION AWARDS
were presented for the first time ever
at the 2007 annual meeting of the AFO
at the University of Maine in Orono.
JULIA MACKENZIE, Anglia
Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK,
was awarded best poster presentation,
for her poster entitled "Impact
of non-native flora on breeding success
of Blue and Great Tits." Among
oral presentations, honorable mentions
went to BRENT HORTON,
University of Maine, for his talk, "Corticosterone
as a factor in parental behavior in
male White-throated Sparrows" and
to JASON TOWNSEND,
SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, for his talk, Bicknell's
Thrush overwinter ecology in the Dominican
Republic. Outstanding oral presentation
awards went to SUSAN B. SMITH,
University of Rhode Island, for her
talk, "Influence of diet and food
availability on fuel use and storage
in songbirds during autumn migration
in Rhode Island" and ANDREA
TOWNSEND, Cornell University,
for her talk, "A test of the genetic
benefits hypothesis for extra-pair paternity
in the American Crow." Each student
received a two-year memberships in the
AFO. In addition, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Co., W.H. Freeman Publishing Co., Sinauer
Publishing Co., Oxford University Press
and Princeton University Press all donated
prizes (books) for students. The AFO
is most grateful to these companies.
Student presentation awards will now
be a regular and prominent feature of
annual AFO meetings.
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