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Join faculty leaders Dee Denver and Rory McDonnell to learn more about this 8-week, 14-credit, faculty-led program in Nepal from Oct. 15th-Nov. 17th, 2025. During this program, students will investigate a series of biology based questions while immersed in Nepal’s Himalayan ecosystems and cultures. As a world leader in nature conservation efforts, Nepal has developed innovative management strategies that integrate social, cultural, and environmental approaches to balancing the needs of wildlife and humans. Beyond its magnificent biodiversity, this country hosts tremendous cultural diversity and is a crossroads for many spiritual traditions. Nepal is the birthplace of the Buddha, and supports numerous Buddhist traditions practiced by different indigenous ethnic groups and Tibetan refugee communities. Students will investigate how biodiversity and Buddhist cultures come together through an immersive experience in the Gaurishankar Conservation Area of the Himalayas. The group will visit multiple majestic Buddhist monasteries in Gaurishankar, and perform biodiversity research projects nearby in small groups as part of the experience. Not only will students have the chance to integrate genome-scale research activities into their projects using cutting edge DNA sequencing technology  but they will also engage with and learn from conservation scientists, indigenous community members, academic scholars, and Buddhist monastics and thinkers in Nepal.

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