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A zest for teaching. (Amherst College biology professor Paul Ewald) (1994 College Guide) (Cover Story)
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U.S. News & World Report
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October 4, 1993
- Author:
- Borg, Ethan S.
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1993 All rights reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Ewald is one on the most popular teachers at Amherst College. His enthusiasm and teaching skill has drawn many nonscience majors and honors students to his classes. Ewald has contributed ideas from both ecology and evolutionary biology to AIDS research.
It is 6:15 in the morning, and five students from Amherst College's animal behavior lab are shivering in their hip boots while standing in a marsh near campus. Suddenly, 40-year-old biologist Paul Ewald sees a blackbird flying over the cattails. He points to the bird and then to another, growing excited as the blackbird social system plays itself out before these young observers.
It is like this always: The biologist infects ...