University of Minnesota Morris Morton Gneiss Endowed Professor in Environmental Sciences Michael Zavada will travel to Peru soon as part of a Fulbright Specialist Program award.
Zavada will complete a project at Universidad Nacional del Altiplano de Puno (UNA) in Peru that aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefiting participants, institutions, and communities both in the U.S. and overseas through a variety of educational and training activities within environmental science.
Zavada’s project goals are to aid and facilitate the development or improvement of an effective and practical environmental science program at UNA to address the most pressing environmental issues of the regional community; to introduce the students to the regional and global environmental issues that confront the Puno region, Peru, and Latin America; and to establish and explore ideas for collaborative research that would benefit faculty and students at both UNA and UMN Morris.
