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GAINESVILLE, Florida - Arte e ciência nem sempre caminham juntas, mas um projeto novo da Universidade da Florida (UF) desafia esta afirmação. Estudantes do Instituto de Ciências Agrícolas e da Vida (IFAS) recentemente trabalharam em conjunto com o Museu de Arte Samuel P.

One of the highlights of the 2013 ATBC meeting was getting to see Frank Joyce again. Frank is a legend in Costa Rican conservation and education circles - he’s played an important role in conservation in the Monteverde region and has trained hundred’s of students as the Coordinator and Lead Instructor of the University of California’s Tropical Biology Study Abroad Program.

We like using Wikipedia in courses so much we published a paper in TREE about the experience; it includes a helpful week-by-week guide to the assignment. Here are a few other resources that may be useful if you are interested in including the editing or writing of Wikipedia entries in your courses.

[caption id=“attachment_740” align=“alignright” width=“770”] At the Natural Areas Teaching Lab on the University of Florida campus, Emilio Bruna, a UF associate professor of wildlife ecology and conservation, left, and graduate students Shelly Johnson and Matt Palumbo, display the Android app Bruna’s fall 2010 plant-animal interaction class created and recently released.

Last semester I taught my course in tropical ecology and conservation with John Blake. The class is for undergrads, but we also allow graduate students from the social sciences and humanities to take it to complete their requirements for the Tropical Conservation and Development Program As part of the course, we always ask them to do a group project, and this year we had the opportunity to help Dr.