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.