Cary, N.C., resident Danae Shipp to study in Hawaii

2016 Jul 1

Cary, N.C., resident Danae Shipp, a master's student in the Global Field Program from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, will travel to Hawaii in July 2016. Shipp will study what it takes to save species in the wild and engage with local partners developing and testing site-specific methods of community engagement to sustain ecological and social health.

Shipp is a teacher at Cary Academy.

More information about Shipp's 2016 course can be found at http://www.earthexpeditions.org. Click Hawaii.

Since the program began 12 years ago, Project Dragonfly's Earth Expeditions graduate courses - on which the master's programs are based - have engaged more than 1,850 people in firsthand educational and scientific research at critical conservation field sites in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas. Dragonfly is located in the department of biology at Miami University, a state university in Oxford, Ohio. Miami was established in 1809 and is listed as one of the eight original Public Ivies.

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