Professor of Biology Sue Ann Miller presented research done with student collaborators in two reports to the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) in Washington, D.C., in April. Christine Campbell, '04 and Christopher Reamer, '00 were coauthors of "Apoptosis contributes to morphogenesis of natal down feathers and removal of periderm in chick embryos." Campbell's summer research followed a lead from Reamer's senior thesis. Senior thesis research of Christine Campbell, '04, Liz Ransom, '04, and part of the research of Senior Fellow Samuel Klempner, '03, produced the report, "Apoptosis precedes removal of avian thyroglossal duct and suggests cell culling in early bilobed thyroid." Abstracts were published in the FASEB Journal.
Miller has also been appointed to the executive committee of the board of directors of Sigma Xi, the scientific research honor society. She continues to chair the society's committee on gants-in-aid of research and serves as director of the Baccalaureate College Constituency Group at the national level. Locally she has served for 20 years as secretary-treasurer of the Hamilton College chapter of Sigma Xi, and prior to that she was chapter vice president and president.
