Cory Wilcox making a difference in human and ecological communities

2015 Mar 20

Villa Park, Ill. resident Cory Wilcox, a graduate student in the Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP) from Miami University's Project Dragonfly and Chicago Zoological Society-Brookfield Zoo, has been awarded a Community Engagement badge from the university for making a difference in human and ecological communities. As part of the AIP, students like Wilcox apply the tools of conservation science and advance the tenets central to the master's degree: inquiry, community and voice.

Through her Conservation Science & Community course project entitled "Plight of the Pollinators: How Urban Gardening Could Save the Bees," Wilcox encouraged a suburban neighborhood to use the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s mapping application, YardMap, to understand the impact of backyard gardening for the benefit of pollinators. Wilcox is a service representative at Brookfield Zoo.

Project Dragonfly offers the Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP) master's degree in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, New York, Phoenix, San Diego and Seattle. The community-based AIP degree is co-delivered with Miami's Dragonfly and premier learning institutions accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). Courses take place in web-based learning communities and on-site at zoos in those locations. To learn more about the AIP, visit http://aip.miamioh.edu/.

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