{"id":11810,"date":"2022-04-28T11:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=11810"},"modified":"2023-07-17T11:08:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T15:08:47","slug":"elizabethtown-college-professors-scientific-research-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/elizabethtown-college-professors-scientific-research-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Professor\u2019s Scientific Research Published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etown.edu\/depts\/biology\/faculty-biology.aspx\">Associate Professor of Biology David Bowne,<\/a> recently had work published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/canadian-entomologist\/article\/abs\/an-investigation-of-demographic-and-component-allee-effects-in-the-madagascar-hissing-cockroach\/5CAF10A41A03D6CC6647505DCF793A05\">The Canadian Entomologist.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The experimentation for Bowne\u2019s research paper, \u201cAn investigation of demographic and component Allee effects in the Madagascar hissing cockroach,\u201d is the result of his scientific partnership with his daughter, Maria Wohlbowne, who is a student at Elizabethtown Area High School.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11811\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2022\/04\/Maria-Wohlbowne_Cockroach-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11811\" class=\"wp-image-11811\" src=\"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2022\/04\/Maria-Wohlbowne_Cockroach-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2022\/04\/Maria-Wohlbowne_Cockroach-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2022\/04\/Maria-Wohlbowne_Cockroach-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2022\/04\/Maria-Wohlbowne_Cockroach-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2022\/04\/Maria-Wohlbowne_Cockroach-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2022\/04\/Maria-Wohlbowne_Cockroach-1080x1440.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2022\/04\/Maria-Wohlbowne_Cockroach-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Wohlbowne conducting research in 2018<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When she was in the sixth grade, Wohlbowne became captivated with her school\u2019s colony of Madagascar hissing cockroaches and asked for some of her own, as a Christmas gift.<\/p>\n<p>Interested in learning more about the nature of the insects, the two created an experiment designed to study whether the cockroaches were better in groups and would thrive in higher density conditions. This uncommon state is known as the Allee effect.<\/p>\n<p>They began their experiment in August 2017 and conducted their research every two months, until January 2019. After a period of writing and analysis, Bowne and Wohlbowne submitted their paper for review in September 2021, and had it published in April 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cNever discount the interests of children,\u201d Bowne said. \u201cWith encouragement and guidance, those interests can develop into impressive accomplishments. In this case, a fascination with hissing cockroaches led to new scientific understanding.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College Associate Professor of Biology David Bowne, recently had work published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal, The Canadian Entomologist. The experimentation for Bowne\u2019s research paper, \u201cAn investigation of demographic and component Allee effects in the Madagascar hissing cockroach,\u201d is the result of his scientific partnership with his daughter, Maria Wohlbowne, who is a student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":11826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,7,764],"tags":[1140,490,233,197,1350],"class_list":["post-11810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-achievements","category-campus-community","category-research-and-academics","tag-academic","tag-achievements-2","tag-biology","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11810"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11864,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions\/11864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}