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Study Abroad in Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras with Dr. Keri Brondo

Study Abroad in Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras with Dr. Keri Brondo

1 - Macy Clanton, Nicole Berryhill, and Abby Martin on Rock Harbor beach; 2- group arrival on shore after travelling through mangrove canal; 3- Abby Martin, Will Douglas, Sabrina Taylor, Nicole Berryhill, and Macy Clanton at Jade Seahorse art gardens

Study Abroad in Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras with Dr. Keri Brondo

Study Abroad in Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras with Dr. Keri Brondo

Students from Dr. Brondo’s Culture, Conservation, and Environmental Change study abroad program cooling off in Utila’s freshwater caves, Bay Islands, Honduras.

Study Abroad in Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras with Dr. Keri Brondo

Study Abroad in Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras with Dr. Keri Brondo

1 – Macy Clanton holding Utila’s spiny-tailed iguana after processing data during a field expedition; 2 – Will Douglas with red snapper caught by local fishermen; 3 – Abby Martin releasing juvenile swamper into the mangroves as part of a Research and Breeding program.

Dr. Keith Bower's Ornithology class field trip to the Meeman Biological Station

Dr. Keith Bower's Ornithology class field trip to the Meeman Biological Station

Students helped ID the first adult Prothonotary Warbler of the 2022 field season, and will be forever immortalized in the lab database

Update from Egypt

UofM professor Jim Adelman and researchers from Virginia Tech, University of San Diego and University of Connecticut received a $1.75 million grant to study variation in host susceptibility to infectious disease.

What can finches tell us? A lot, it seems...

UofM professor Jim Adelman and researchers from Virginia Tech, University of San Diego and University of Connecticut received a $1.75 million grant to study variation in host susceptibility to infectious disease.

Twice a month, students and advisors pick up trash, weed and provide gardening services at the park.

Pre-Professional Students Adopt Cancer Survivors Park

Twice a month, students and advisors pick up trash, weed and provide gardening services at the park.

Together, they are the Center for Earthquake Research and Information

Together, they are the Center for Earthquake Research and Information

Faculty, engineers, researchers, technicians, scientists, administrators, IT, and post-doc students make up CERI

Arts & Sciences Headlines

Ed Bruner Book Prize

Nov: Dr. Keri Brondo's book, Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration: Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef has been awarded the Ed Bruner Book Prize. The committee noted: "This is a remarkable book that moves beyond the study of human tourism on the island of Utila (Honduras) to examine how other species exhibit/display/articulate alternative values to life and death. ..."

Assistant Professor Paper Featured in The Conversation

Nov: A paper by Dr. Stephen Kofi Diko was recently featured in an article published in The Conversation. The paper titled, "Obscured Innovations? Inventiveness in Collective Infrastructure Management in Accra, Ghana," argues that the solutions these residents come up with to make everyday urban life livable are a form of social innovation. Dr. Diko is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning in the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy (SUAPP). Read the Article

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