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Scholars symposium combines veterinary student research, professional development

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Nearly 600 veterinary students from around the world attended the Veterinary Scholars Symposium, held August 8-10 at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine.

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A Survey of U.S. Birders

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The survey was a join effort with the University of Minnesota. The DCEs allow researchers to identify respondents’ preferences for specific attributes of birdwatching, and to highlight which attributes respondents value relative to other attributes.” A core portion of the birdwatcher survey involved discrete choice experiments (DCEs).

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Humane Society Cites Abuses at University of Minnesota

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Media-Newswire.com) - The Humane Society of the United States has obtained government reports showing that the University of Minnesota has violated federal standards of care for animals in laboratories. The public doesn't want animals to suffer gratuitously in research laboratories," said Martin Stephens, Ph.D.,

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NYC mystery warbler: Odd Blackpoll, hybrid, or Carbonated Warbler?

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I also found this 1995 account of a warbler in Minnesota that bore similarities both to the bird I saw this morning and to Audubon’s Carbonated Warbler, to which the Minnesota observers compared their bird. ” Upon close review of my photographs and some additional research, that theory makes sense to me.

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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But, he continued, some – but not all – of the researchers drove him nuts. Their attitude was “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m a researcher.” Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Researchers can and do provide valuable information. Or how gracefully it flew? Who its predators were?

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The Elusive Goal of Bird-Safe Skyscrapers

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In the meantime, research into ways to make buildings safer for birds is ongoing. Building-stunned bird: Nashville Warbler above by Stephanie Beard, Project BirdSafe, Audubon Minnesota. Each year, millions are injured or killed when they slam into the sides of glass-sheathed buildings that reflect the sky.

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DeMuth Agrees to Plea Bargain

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Scott DeMuth, a sociology graduate student at the University of Minnesota charged last year with felony conspiracy under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act agreed yesterday to a plea bargain. Instead, DeMuth will plead guilty to conspiring to damage a Minnesota company that breeds ferrets. From the Science Insider.

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