Michele Witkowski awarded Jose I. Pareja-Wendy P. Tori Global Conservation & Field Scholarship through Drs. Jose I. Pareja and Wendy P. Tori

2016 Jun 29

Old Bridge, N.J., resident Michele Witkowski has been awarded the Jose I. Pareja-Wendy P. Tori Global Conservation & Field Scholarship in the amount of $250 from Drs. Jose I. Pareja and Wendy P. Tori in collaboration with Miami University's Project Dragonfly.

Witkowski, who was accepted into the Advanced Inquiry Program in 2015, has studied conservation research online and through experiential learning at an AIP affiliated institution in New York. This summer Witkowski will help save native forest birds and local plant communities in Hawaii. Witkowski is a teacher at Edison High School.

Drs. Jose I. Pareja and Wendy P. Tori, in collaboration with Miami's Project Dragonfly, have awarded eight partial scholarships since 2013.

About the Scholarship

Dr. Jose I. Pareja, a native of Peru, is one of the founding team members of the GFP. Pareja is currently the director of Wildman Library and is the 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

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

Miami University's Project Dragonfly reaches millions of people each year through inquiry-driven learning media, public exhibits and graduate programs worldwide. 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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