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Assiniis Chosa, an 11th-grade student at Watersmeet High School, looks at a moose jaw held by Michigan Technological University wildlife ecology and conservation senior Allie Johnson during a visit to campus Monday.
HOUGHTON A Watersmeet High School student met with professors and college students at Michigan Technological University Tuesday as part of an internship program aimed at promoting Native American interest in STEM fields.
“My science teacher actually brought it up in class, and I figured, ‘Why not? ” said Watersmeet 11th-grader Assiniis Chosa. “I really do like life science, so it didn’t hurt to come try.”
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All of us will be deceiving ourselves, collectively, as a people, if we claim not to know that the Nigerian formal system of education had long been in jeopardy and currently in the phase of progressive steep decline. If there are people still in doubt about this, some facts will be advanced, soon, for clarity. This sad reality is, particularly, clearly evident at all levels of publicly owned educational facilities. It is no more news that these earlier mentioned public facilities are merely struggling – with positive hopes and aspirations – against many odds, to deliver high quality human capital, and other products. The painful decline in quality of inputs into, and outputs from, public educational facilities resulted mainly from multifarious but intertwined human-induced causes such as low self esteem of many past and current government officials, somersaults in governments’ educational and allied policies and the quest(s) for immoral, and most times illegal, acquisit
Luke Douglas
University of Maine graduate students Luke Douglas and Carl Pohlman have been awarded the 2021 Garden Club of America Frances M. Peacock Scholarship for Native Bird Habitat. The scholarship awards will help support field research activities this summer.
The students are the only recipients of the competitive, nationwide scholarship this year. Only one other University of Maine student, Meaghan Conway, who received her Ph.D. under the advisement of Brian Olsen, received the award in 2016.
Douglas is an M.S. in forest resources student from Barrington, Rhode Island advised by Amber Roth, assistant professor of forest wildlife management who holds a joint appointment in the School of Forest Resources and Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology. His research focuses on how rusty blackbirds (
A Diverse Group of Leaders Come Together to Form Women s Forest Congress Advisory Council
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WASHINGTON, April 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A group of visionary, practical, and supportive women has come together to help shape the Women s Forest Congress. Advisory Council members serve as advisors to the Steering Committee, advocate for the Congress s broader work, and ensure equal representation from diverse backgrounds, organizations, and views. The Advisory Council brings unique knowledge, skills, and wisdom to augment the Steering Committee, with the goal of building out the Women s Forest Congress.
The Advisory Council also provides another way to be intentional about the direction of the Women s Forest Congress, making room for more voices and perspectives in a different leadership capacity. While the Steering Committee retains decision-making authority, the Advisory Council provides information, recommendations, and adv
Director’s love of outdoors shines through in his work
3 days ago
Mike Hunter manages lands and facilities for the Warnell School
Mike Hunter just wants to be outside.
As a forester registered in the state of Georgia, his love for the outdoors led him down a path to become the lands and facilities director at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.
“That’s the reason I went into the forestry and natural resource field,” Hunter said.
From student to employee
Hunter grew up in Wilkes County, Georgia, and for the first 10 years he worked as a UGA employee, he commuted back and forth from Rayle, Georgia. Now, Hunter is approaching year 26 of working at UGA.