Columbus, Ohio, resident Katherine Simons to study in Namibia

2015 May 29

Columbus, Ohio, resident Katherine Simons, a master's student in the Global Field Program from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, will travel to Namibia in summer 2015. Simons will study ongoing research projects such as radio tracking, cheetah conservation, and ecosystem management as well as the design of school and community programs.

More information about Simons's 2015 course is located at http://earthexpeditions.org/namibia. (If link is inactive, please copy and paste the url into a browser window or visit http://www.earthexpeditions.org and click on Namibia.)

Since the program began 10 years ago, Project Dragonfly's Earth Expeditions graduate courses - on which the master's programs are based - have engaged more than 1,700 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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