Current Real World Practicums
The Real World Practicum (RWP) projects offer students hands-on experience in collaborative, team-based research that applies the skills, training, and ways of thinking acquired throughout the first two years of study. Here you'll find a sampling of recent projects undertaken by GLOBES scholars. In many instances, the RWP experience forms the basis for the interdisciplinary chapter of the student's doctoral dissertation, a requirement of the GLOBES program.
Invasive Species: Zambia Interaction and impact of Nile Tilapia on the Kafue Watershed in partnership with the WorldFish Center, and with the assistance of the Zambian Department of Fisheries and the University of Zambia Department of Natural Sciences. (Andy Deines, Cohort 1, 2007)
Infectious Disease: Ghana The Buruli ulcer threat and the study of aquatic and ecological conditions that affect the transmission of mycobacteria infections in collaboration with a team of researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Tennessee. (Peter Levi, Cohort 1, 2007)
Invasive Species/Infectious Disease: China The impact of nonindigenous crayfish on native ecosystems and their use as a potential biocontrol of snails associated with the transmission of schistosomiasis, in association with researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Science. (Ashley Baldridge, Cohort 2, Matt Barnes IGERT Associate, 2008)
Infectious Disease: Uganda Treatment and prevention of malaria in association with Uganda Martyrs University and the Kellogg Institute’s Ford Family Program. (Becky Miller, Cohort 1, 2008)
Infectious Disease: Haiti Transmission dynamics and the causative agent of Lymphatic Filariasis in collaboration with the Haiti Program at the University of Notre Dame. (Gilbert Saint Jean, Cohort 1, 2008)