Melissa Sabo making a difference in human and ecological communities

2015 Mar 9

Cincinnati, Ohio, resident Melissa Sabo, a graduate student in the Global Field Program (GFP) from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, has been awarded a Community Engagement badge from the university for making a difference in human and ecological communities. As part of the GFP, students like Sabo 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 "Improvements to Schoolyard Biodiversity," Sabo determined accessibility and current uses of the schoolyard, as well as to show proposed areas of enhancement easily accessible by the teachers. Sabo is a school program manager at Cincinnati Nature Center.

As part of her master's program coursework, Sabo studied desert and marine ecosystems on the Baja peninsula. Study sites include 13 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas.

The GFP master's degree is designed for educators and other professionals from all disciplines and settings who are interested in working collaboratively to bring about change in local and global contexts. Applicants can be from anywhere in the United States or abroad. To learn more about the GFP, visit http://gfp.miamioh.edu/.

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