Ringing Bats*, guest post by Chris Laning

 

What attracted me to the college I attended — a small liberal arts college in Indiana — was its excellent biology department. This was well before the days when there were actually jobs in environmental science, and it was one of the few schools I looked at whose biology department did not assume that everyone wanted to go to medical school. Since I wanted to study "natural history," that was a big factor for me. And when I got there, I soon volunteered to join the student staff of the...