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Education

B.S. (Summa cum laude), Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA (1978).
M.A. Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. (1981)
Ph.D. Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. (1985)

Academic Experience

Lecturer, Biology, Princeton University (1985-1986)
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Princeton University (1985-1988)
Assistant Professor, Kutztown University, (Fall 1985-Spring 1990)
Associate Professor, Kutztown University (Fall 1990-Spring 1994)
Professor, Kutztown University (Fall 1994-present).

Articles in Refereed Journals

Towne WF and H Moscrip (2008). The connection between landscapes and the solar ephemeris in honey bees. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 3729-3736.(pdf) (JEB website) (Inside JEB article on this paper).

Towne WF (2008). Honey bees can learn the relationship between the solar ephemeris and a newly-experienced landscape.Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 3737-3743.(pdf) (JEB website)

Towne WF, Baer CM, Fabiny SJ, and Shinn LM (2005). Does swarming cause honey bees to update their solar ephemerides? Journal of Experimental Biology 208:4049-4061. (pdf) (JEB website)

Towne WF and WH Kirchner (1998). Honey bees fail to update their solar ephemerides after a displacement. Naturwissenschaften 85: 459-463.(pdf) (Naturwiss website)

Towne, WF (1995). Frequency discrimination in the hearing of honey bees. Journal of Insect Behavior 8: 281-286.

Seeley, TD, and WF Towne (1992). Tactics of dance choice in honey bees: Do foragers compare dances? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 30: 59-69.

Kirchner, WH, C Dreller and WF Towne (1991). Hearing in honeybees: Operant conditioning and spontaneous responses to airborne sound. Journal of Comparative Physiology 168: 85-89.

Towne, WF, and WH Kirchner (1989). Hearing in honey bees: Detection of air-particle oscillations. Science 244: 686-688.

Towne, WF, and JL Gould (1988). The spatial precision of the dance communication of honey bees. Journal of Insect Behavior 1:129-155.

Michelsen, A, WF Towne, WH Kirchner, and P Kryger (1987). The acoustic near field of a dancing honey bee. Journal of Comparative Physiology 161: 633-643.

Towne WF (1985). Acoustic and visual cues in the dances of four honey bee species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 16:185-187.

Review Articles, Book Chapters, Others

Towne, WF, and JL Gould (1985). Magnetic field sensitivity in honeybees. In: Magnetite Biomineralization and Magnetoreception in Organisms, JL Kirschvink and BJ McFadden (eds.), Academic Press, New York. pp. 385-406.

Gould, JL, FC Dyer, and WF Towne (1985). Recent progress in  studies of the dance language. In: Experimental Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, H Markl and M Lindauer (eds.), Gustav Fisher Verlag, Stuttgart. pp. 141-161.

Gould, JL, and WF Towne (1988). Learning in honey bees. Advances in Insect Physiology 20: 55-86.

Towne, WF (1991). Why I train bees. Scholars 2(2): 4-8.

Kirchner, WH, and WF Towne (1994). The sensory basis of the honeybee's dance language. Scientific American 207(6): 52-59.

Towne, WF (1997) Asking animals. Dragonfly: A magazine for young investigators. March/April 1997: 14-17.