The DZS is our newest Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP) site! The conservation-focused online master’s degree through Miami University offers experiential learning and field study through the Detroit Zoo. The application is now open for the first Detroit cohort, which will begin coursework in summer 2023. Read more

Project Dragonfly at Miami University is accepting applications for Earth Expeditions (EE) graduate courses and master's degrees through the Global Field Program (GFP) and the Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP).

The GFP combines summer EE field courses worldwide with web learning communities. Apply by January 28, 2023.

The AIP online master's degree from Miami University includes experiential learning and field study at 10 AIP sites in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Jacksonville, New York, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis. One EE course may count toward the AIP master's degree. Apply by February 28, 2023.

Let us know if you're interested in applying for summer 2023. I'm interested!

Please join us for the next Dragonfly Diversity Cafe presentation on Thursday, September 15, at 7:30 p.m. ET. This cafe features Germán Paredes, Aventureros Program Coordinator at the Vermilion Sea Institute, our Earth Expeditions partner in Bahía de los Ángeles, Baja California, Mexico. Aventureros is a year-round youth program that supports local students in discovering and caring for the marine and terrestrial worlds around them. Read more

Global Field Program (GFP) graduate student Lauren Glaser of Bay Shore, New York, was among 50 teachers from across the nation who were chosen as guests of honor for a magical celebration of America’s education heroes at Walt Disney World Resort in May 2022. The event coincided with the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World Resort, which launched “The World’s Most Magical Celebration” in October 2021 to mark the resort’s 50th year.

“These teachers and so many others are really next-level educators,” said Charles Thomas, Director, Disney Imagination Campus. “They are supercharging the imaginations of young minds every day in ways that are driving their career ambitions in directions that they probably never thought were possible.” Read more

Global Field Program graduate student Greg Harris of Cambridge, Massachusetts, paddled by graffiti and shopping carts while kayaking the 1.6 miles of Alewife Brook, an unusual venture given it's surrounded by industry and highways. Harris wrote about the experience for Boston Globe magazine.

"The Alewife region, in short, became marginal, post-industrial land, up for grabs by commercial developers and transportation planners," he writes. Sewage and stormwater runoff make up the bulk of Alewife’s pollution sources. "Yet there’s reason to hope that things can change." Read more

Miami graduate student Amy Castaneda, pictured here, was one of three Dragonfly students awarded Dragonfly's inaugural Inquiry, Community, Voice Scholarship (ICV). The scholarship supports students who are committed to furthering the fields of inclusion, diversity, environmental justice, and other related fields using innovative and relevant approaches to conservation. 

Thanks to everyone who made a #MoveInMiami donation in support of our program-wide commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Thanks to your generosity, we can continue to support students like Amy who worked this summer to help launch a conservation campaign for Imago, a Cincinnati-based, urban nature organization. Read more

Calling all Dragonflies! Our eighth annual photo contest is underway! Have you captured some incredible summer 2022 moments? We'd love to see them! All AIP, GFP, and EE students and Dragonfly staff, partners, instructors, and facilitators are encouraged to participate. Winners receive a Dragonfly t-shirt or note cards. 

Submit your photos to this form by September 15.

One of last year's winners was Miami University AIP graduate student Heidi Edwards with this amazing photo of a pollen-covered bee on an echinacea plant in Oakwood, Ohio. As part of her Plants & People course, Edwards, who participates in experiential learning and field study through Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, planted flowers in her backyard and kept a photo log of pollinator interactions. View the 2021 winning photos