Duke in Alaska Summer Info Meeting

Join Professor Jon Shaw and the Global Education Office for the Info Session: Monday, January 23rd 4:30pm Biological Sciences 113

Duke in Alaska: Biodiversity of Alaska
May 31 - June 30, 2017

From The Chronicle: Students venture north through the Duke in Alaska program http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/09/students-venture-north-through-duke-in-alaska-program

Duke's Department of Biology and Global Education Office for Undergraduates (GEO) offer a four-week, one-course program focusing on the major-biomes, conservation issues, and human-environment interactions of Alaska. Alaska offers an outstanding venue for integrating science and the humanities. Students on the program will spend time in and gain familiarity with three major environmental regions within the state: temperate rainforest of the southeastern Alaskan panhandle, the boreal forest as represented around Anchorage, and the Arctic tundra of the North Slope north of Fairbanks. While the program emphasizes 'hands-on' experiential learning about Alaskan plants and animals, the lecture component will focus on how biodiversity is studied in a scientific manner. Students will receive the following credit: BIOLOGY 287A/ENVIRON 277A (NS, STS). Join Duke in making Alaska your classroom this summer! Deadline for applications is February 1, 2017. For more information and to apply, visit: https://globaled.duke.edu/programs/domestic_programs/summer/duke-in-alaska