Millicent S. Fuck

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Millicent S. Ficken (born July 27, 1933 in Washington, DC as Millicent Beth Sigler ; † July 7, 2020 ), often Millicent Sigler Ficken or Millicent Ficken , was an American university professor and ethologist .

Life

Millicent Ficken was the daughter of Phares Oscar and Helen Elizabeth Sigler, née Richards. After graduating from Leesville High School in Leesville , Louisiana in June 1951, she enrolled in September 1951 at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York , where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in June 1955 . In the same month she married the ethologist Robert William Ficken, from whom she divorced in 1989. From this marriage a son and a daughter were born. From September 1955 to January 1956, she worked as a research assistant in the Bacteriology Laboratory at the University of Oklahoma . From February 1956 to September 1957 she was a lab technician in insects - Biochemistry at Cornell University.

In 1960 it was with the dissertation Behavior of the American Redstart, Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus) for Ph.D. PhD from Cornell University. From 1960 to 1962 she did research as a postdoc at Cornell University. In 1962 she published the book The Comparative Ethology of the Wood Warblers with Robert William Ficken . From 1963 to 1967 she was a research fellow at the Department of Zoology at the University of Maryland, College Park .

From 1967 to 1975 she was assistant professor and then associate professor at the Department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). In 1975 she became a full professor and in 2003 professor emerita at the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. From 1967 to 1997 she was the director of the biological field station at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. From 1967 to 1980 as well as 1987 and 1988 she was a fellow of the National Science Foundation .

Ficken's research interests included animal communication with a focus on bird calls and the social behavior of birds, particularly penguins , hummingbirds and North American songbirds , on whose vocalizations she carried out long-term studies. In 1996 she wrote the article on the Hudson's tit ( Poecile hudsonicus ) and in 1998 on the bridle tit ( Baeolophus wollweberi ) in the standard work Birds of North America of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology .

Ficken was a member of the American Ornithologists' Union , the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the Animal Behavior Society .

literature

  • Mary K. Ash: Who's Who of American Women, 1999-2000 , 21st Edition, Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ, 1998, ISBN 0-8379-0424-2 , p. 315
  • Millicent Sigler fucking. In: American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences, Gale, 2008. Gale In Context: Biography, accessed October 13, 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sad News: Millicent "Penny" Fucking. University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, July 14, 2020, accessed July 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Fucking, Millicent S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sigler Fucking, Millicent; Fuck, millicent; Sigler, Millicent Beth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ethologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH 7th July 2020