When reproduction is just batty
Patricia Brennan, associate professor of biological sciences at Mount Holyoke College, discusses a new study on serotine bat reproduction with The New York Times.
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Patricia Brennan, associate professor of biological sciences at Mount Holyoke College, discusses a new study on serotine bat reproduction with The New York Times.
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Mount Holyoke students are assisting a visiting assistant lecturer with her research of bumblebee sensitivity to heat and disease amid growing environmental threats.
Brennan joins the ranks of the more than 30 faculty members awarded the honor at Mount Holyoke.
For the first time in its history, Mount Holyoke College has been selected as a Beckman Scholars Program awardee by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. The foundation chose the College after a rigorous application process.
Mount Holyoke assistant professor Patrica Brennan’s research found that snakes have clitorises that are forked — just like snakes’ tongues and just like snakes’ penises.
Mount Holyoke postdoctoral researcher Rachel Keeffe has published a paper that reveals startling new facts about the tongues of cane toads.
Meredith Becher ’23 followed her passion for biology and charted a new course on the Connecticut River from a canoe.