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Researchers traveled to Panama to study katydids and how they evolved to survive in the ecosystem.
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Researchers study katydid songs in Panama

By Rohini Mandal | October 18, 2017

Biology professor Hannah ter Hofstede led a team of researchers through Panama this past summer in order to learn more about the process of evolution by examining the katydid species. Katydids are predominantly nocturnal insects related to crickets, famous for their unique mating calls. “One reason to do this kind of work in the tropics is that there is so much diversity,” ter Hofstede said.

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Editors' Note

By Lauren Budd and May Mansour | October 18, 2017

Happy Week 6, Mirror readers! In honor of this issue’s theme, “That Which is Public,” your intrepid (do we use that word too frequently?) editors decided to entertain you with their most embarrassing, public stories.

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Society of Fellows welcomes new postdoctoral researchers

By Gigi Grigorian | October 17, 2017

This fall, Dartmouth’s Society of Fellows welcomed seven new postdoctoral fellows to campus. Having recently earned their Ph.D.s in various disciplines across the arts and sciences, they will now spend three years at Dartmouth continuing their scholarship and teaching. Dartmouth’s Society of Fellows is modeled after similar societies that exist at other institutions, including Harvard University and Princeton University.

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