Outreach

We are always looking for opportunities to engage in education and outreach, both in our local community and wherever our field research takes us. Below is listed some of our recent outreach involvement. If you are an individual or organization looking to collaborate with us on an outreach project or event, please feel free to contact any of our members (see "people" pages for individual contacts) or email Claire at couchc@oregonstate.edu to organize with us.

Past Outreach

2017-2018

PhD student Claire Couch and post-doc Leigh Combrink mentored groups of high school students and helped them develop and carry out research projects at the OSU Summer Veterinary Experience camp (https://vetmed.oregonstate.edu/osu-summer-veterinary-experience). The goal of the program is to give students experience performing experimental design, laboratory work, and statistical analysis related to veterinary science and medicine.

2016

PhD student Claire Couch crowdfunded, planned, and co-taught a science careers camp for high school students in a rural district of South Africa. She collaborated with Karen Vickers at the Nsasani Trust (http://www.nsasani.co.za/) to bring a group of students to Kruger National Park so they could participate in field and laboratory work and meet with park scientists to learn about careers in ecology and conservation. The goal of the camp was to provide students

2015

PhD candidate Caroline Glidden raised funds to donate 400 copies of "Charlotte's Web" and "Douwlina: A Rhino's Story", a children's book based on the true story of a rhino calf who was orphaned due to poaching, to four primary schools in Hluvukani, South Africa, a township bordering Kruger National Park. Caroline organized for the author of "Douwlina" to come speak at each of the four schools and share Douwlina's story. The aim of the project was to provide conservation based teaching materials to the schools.