Global Field Program graduate student Angie Trumbo of Salt Lake City, Utah, pictured in front of a parrot sculpture, on the summer 2022 Earth Expeditions course in the Amazon. Trumbo and other graduate students journeyed to the Amazon to learn how communities are working to save this astonishing and irreplaceable ecosystem. | |
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Hello,
We are winding up July field experiences for Advanced Inquiry Program and Earth Expeditions courses, and we're prepping for August and September. It's been a busy summer, and we're looking ahead to September when applications open, and we start recruiting for a new cohort of students!
Please read below to learn about the incredible work and conservation action of some of our Dragonfly students.
On behalf of the Dragonfly Team,
Jamie
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Jamie Bercaw Anzano
Director of Communications
bercawj@MiamiOH.edu
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Miami Dragonflies in the News | | |
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AIP & GFP students awarded scholarships | |
Fifteen Miami University graduate students in Project Dragonfly’s Advanced Inquiry Program and Global Field Program recently received scholarships totaling $11,200.
Congratulations to our 2022 scholarship winners: Anna Brown, Morgan Buehlmann, Amy Castaneda, Amanda Dale, Mattie Forte, Sydnee Foster, Ava Goodale, Andrea Haugen, Emily Hemeyer, Serenity Kemp, Taylor Kennedy Frenchi, Ilana Morris, David Owen, Julianne Turner, and Gretchen Uhrinek. ... learn more about the recipients
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AIP student Jim Spanikow published on Edutopia | |
Advanced Inquiry Program student and eighth-grade science teacher Jim Spandikow of Oceanside, California, is creating opportunities for his students to study outside and connect to nature through hands-on lessons. As an AIP student, Spandikow participates in experiential learning through the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.
“As a teacher, it’s great to get feedback from colleagues, but your efforts are really validated when students are talking positively about your class. I have been a middle school science teacher in Southern California for 30 years now, and I’ve found that engaging students in activities outdoors provides a spark that allows them to think about the environment and their place in it.”... read more about Spandikow's project
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AIP graduate Bee Redfield named new marine science center leader | |
Miami University graduate student Bee Redfield MA ’19 of Port Townsend, Washington, was recently hired as the new Executive Director of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center and was featured in her hometown newspaper, the Peninsula Daily News.
Redfield earned a Master of Arts (MA) degree in the biological sciences from Miami University while participating in Advanced Inquiry Program field study through the Chicago Zoological Society/Brookfield Zoo, and working full-time as a Community Relations Manager for a local animal shelter in South Elgin, Illinois. After receiving her MA degree, Redfield began pursuing her doctorate in quantitative ecology at Purdue University in Indiana. ... read more and access the article about Redfield
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AIP student Britta Moore published in Green Teacher | |
Miami University graduate Britta Moore MAT '21 of Lakewood, Colorado, is promoting plant conservation in her classroom. Moore earned a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree in the biological sciences from Miami University through Project Dragonfly‘s Advanced Inquiry Program while working full-time as a science teacher in Lakewood, Colorado.
“To promote plant conservation and prepare our students for a future in which they will need to work with botanical knowledge, we need to intentionally incorporate a more plant-centric curriculum.”... read more about Moore's project
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GFP graduate Brooke Mitchell-Norman featured on VoyageDenver.com |
Miami University graduate Brooke Mitchell-Norman MA '17 of Denver, Colorado, is featured on VoyageDenver.com for her work as a conservation biologist and adventure traveler and as the creator and host of Rewildology, a podcast she launched in early 2021 that offers listeners authentic travel stories and ways to rewild our planet.
“I bounced around the zoo world until I found my graduate program, Project Dragonfly at Miami University. Finally, I discovered a way to travel the world while earning a master’s degree in the field I loved the most, conservation biology.”... read more about Mitchell-Norman's project
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An education reform initiative within Miami University's department of biology, Project Dragonfly oversees the world's largest graduate degree programs dedicated to community-driven ecological and social change. Dragonfly students join the frontlines of community innovation, working across an extraordinary network of leading U.S. zoos, botanical gardens, and community organizations around the world. Dragonfly offers the Advanced Inquiry Program and the Global Field Program master's degrees which combine online and on-site experiential learning, as well as individual field courses through Earth Expeditions.
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