Cathy Jachowski
and Jennifer Wagner, graduate students in the Hopkins Lab and Ph.D. Fellows in the Interfaces of Global Change Program, recently organized and hosted a science outreach day at the SEEDS Nature Center* in Blacksburg, VA. The day of outdoor activities was titled “Passport to Discovery: a hands-on journey through the world of biological science and nature ...
A paper by Dr. Sarah DuRant and colleagues was recently featured on the cover of Biology Letters, a journal published by the Royal Society that features cutting-edge research and high impact articles. In this paper, the Hopkins’ lab reveals a potential hormonal mechanism that mediates parental effects in incubating birds.
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Cathy Jackowski, a Ph.D. student in the Hopkins Lab, was recently featured in a news story at Virginia Tech News.
Earth’s biodiversity is like a kaleidoscope made up of distinct plants and animals; however, with each year’s turn, unique and irreplaceable species disappear.
Habitat loss, invasive species, pollution, disease, and climate change are all to blame for the current rate of extinction, which is 1,000 times higher now ...
Read More →The Fledge mentoring program in the Hopkins Lab allows talented undergraduate students to experience in-depth research by pairing them with a current graduate student. This partnership provides the graduate students with an opportunity to hone their teaching skills. Associate Professor Bill Hopkins created the program in order to better prepare students at both levels for the next step in their educational or professional careers.
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Listen to Dr. Bill Hopkins talk about hellbender ecology on Jim Metzner’s Pulse of the Planet radio show! This broadcast reaches hundreds of thousands of listeners, through more than 250 radio channels nationally (mostly NPR stations) and worldwide via arm forces radio.
Listen to his broadcasts about hellbenders in these 2-minute clips:
Hellbender Radio 1: Large Salamanders
Hellbender Radio 2: Bad Name, Good Sign
Read More →A new Virginia Tech University Relations video features Dr. Bill Hopkins, associate professor in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, along with a number of other VT researchers engaged in hands-on learning.
Read more about the faculty featured in this video here: http://www.unirel.vt.edu/audio_video/2013/10/universityvideo.html
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Published in General and Comparative Endocrinology…
Recent research conducted in the Hopkins Lab on eastern hellbender physiology makes the cover of General and Comparative Endocrinology!
Hopkins, W.A., DuRant, S.E. 2011. Innate immunity and stress physiology of eastern hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) from two stream reaches with differing habitat quality. General and Comparative Endocrinology 174:107-115.
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Here’s a new publication on wood duck embryonic energy expenditure that just made the cover of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology:
DuRant, S.E, Hopkins, W.A., and Hepp, G.R. 2011. Embryonic Developmental Patterns and Energy expenditure are Affected by Incubation Temperature in Wood Ducks (Aix sponsa). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 84:451-457.
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Dr. Bill Hopkins was featured in a recent Virginia Tech advertising campaign. The ad below ran in a variety of outlets, including The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The New York Times, The Blue Ridge Business Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Business, Virginia Business, Washington Business Journal, and Newsweek.
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Sarah Durant successfully defended her dissertation “The influence of incubation temperature on avian offspring phenotype: Implications for the life history evolution, avian ecology and conservation”. Congratulations Dr. DuRant!!!
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