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Our co-founders/co-directors are retiring after 30 years! At the start of his Miami University career in the early 1990s, Dr. Chris Myers began teaching tropical ecology courses in Costa Rica. Within the next few years, he, Lynne Born Myers, and a group of interdisciplinary studies professors had written a grant proposal to the National Science Foundation. And with the success of that grant, Project Dragonfly was born.


We hope you enjoy the digital story, podcast, and visuals below as they follow Chris and Lynne's journey from undergraduate students in Miami University's Western College Program to the early days of Dragonfly magazine to today, as the largest international transformative education initiative in the world dedicated to community-driven ecological and social change.

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Happy retirement, Chris and Lynne! Congratulations on your amazing journey. We’re all incredibly grateful for the mark you left on us. As you retire, we wish you nothing but the best — that’s what you've always given. Here's to your next adventure!


On behalf of the Dragonfly Team, 

Mary Jo & Jamie


Mary Jo Lahrmann, Senior Program Assistant

Jamie Bercaw Anzano, Director of Communications

Dragonfly co-founders share their story

Listen on Spotify or YouTube as Dragonfly co-founders Chris and Lynne share the origin story of Project Dragonfly. You'll hear about their early field work in Baja and Borneo, the children's books they wrote together, their National Science Foundation grants, and the creation of Dragonfly, the first national magazine to feature the first-person investigations of children alongside research scientists.

The history and impact of Project Dragonfly

A transformative education 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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Project Dragonfly

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Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056

513.529.8576, dragonfly@miamioh.edu

www.ProjectDragonfly.MiamiOH.edu


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