Villa Park, Ill., resident Cory Wilcox to study in Costa Rica

2016 Jul 1

Villa Park, Ill., resident Cory Wilcox, a master's student in the Advanced Inquiry Program from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, will travel to Costa Rica in July 2016. Wilcox will study lowland rain forest and montane cloud forests while investigating the biotic, physical, and cultural forces that affect tropical biodiversity.

Wilcox is a customer service representative at Chicago Zoological Society - Brookfield Zoo.

More information about Wilcox's 2016 course can be found at http://www.earthexpeditions.org. Click Costa Rica.

Since the program began 12 years ago, Project Dragonfly's Earth Expeditions graduate courses - on which the master's programs are based - have engaged more than 1,850 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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