Fabiana Figueiro Spinelli awarded scholarship through Project Dragonfly at Miami University

2014 Aug 29

Montreal, Quebec, Canada (H3C0K3) resident Fabiana Figueiro Spinelli was awarded the Jose I. Pareja-Wendy P. Tori Global Conservation and Field Scholarship of $250 through Project Dragonfly at Miami University.

Figueiro Spinelli, a first-year student in the Global Field Program (GFP), has studied with the program in Belize.

Because coursework for Project Dragonfly's master's degree occurs on the web, at select zoos nationally and at field sites internationally, students are located throughout the country and abroad.

A select group of Project Dragonfly master's students have received more than $6,000 in Thomas K. Wilson-W. Hardy Eshbaugh and Jose I. Pareja-Wendy P. Tori Scholarships since 2011.

About the Scholarship

Dr. Jose I. Pareja, a native of Peru, is one of Dragonfly’s founding GFP team members. Pareja is currently the director of Wildman Library and is Science and Technology Learning Specialist at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind. Pareja earned his Ph.D., M.S. and M.Ed. from the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Dr. Wendy P. Tori, also a Peru native, is assistant professor of biology at Earlham. Tori earned her Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and her B.S. from the Universidad Agraria La Malina.

About Project Dragonfly

Project Dragonfly reaches millions of people each year through inquiry-driven learning media, public exhibits and graduate programs worldwide. Since 2004 Dragonfly's global courses have engaged more than 1,550 people in firsthand educational and scientific research at critical conservation field sites in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas. Dragonfly is based in the biology department 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.

More information about the GFP is located at http://gfp.miamioh.edu.

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