Columbus, Ohio, resident Katherine Simons to study in Kenya

2016 Jun 3

Columbus, Ohio, resident Katherine Simons, a master's student in the Global Field Program from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, will travel to Kenya in June 2016. Simons will study Maasai communities and sustainable approaches to human/wildlife coexistence.

Simons is a teacher at Buckeye Valley Local Schools.

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

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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