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The program I was involved with this summer, Wildlife Connection, is trying to bridge the gap between humans and the environment. One of the ways we were trying to do this is via education. This was where my internship came in. I went to different primary and secondary schools and taught lessons about ecology and specific animals. The kids see the animals all the time, but they don't know much about them, so they were always really interested when I came in to teach.
Here I was teaching about competitive interactions in Ruaha National Park - the park bordering their village. I called a few kids up the front of the class and assigned them roles of herbivore or carnivore and then let them play a game of tag, with the carnivores obviously trying to eat (tag) the herbivores. We played it two times - once where all the animals were restricted to the front of the class (the borders of Ruaha) and another time where they could go throughout the classroom. I was trying to illustrate why they might see animals in their village, eating their crops (high competition inside the park). The kids always seemed to understand the concept better after playing the game.
music festival, kalliokukkii, celebrating its 25 years with the usual samba carnival parade from papagayo.
Talking with an old woman suffering from leprosy after our concert at a home for lepers and their children in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on August 3, 2013
part of my interaction project, where i am studying the interactions between the people with in the city
Entomology senior graduate assistants Hillary Fischer, left, and Janithri Wickramanayake select arabidopsis plants for testing. The plants have been genetically modified to fluoresce and the color of fluorescence changes in areas where the plants respond to insect damage. (UA System Division of Agriculture photo by Fred Miller)