The MSC L.T. Jordan Institute
for International Awareness

Previous Fellows

The 14th Class of L. T. Jordan Fellows (2000-2001)

Dave Baumgardner is a graduate student in entomology from Houston, Texas.  He will travel to Costa Rica to study its great biodiversity with specific focus on the collection and the ecology of leptohyphid mayphlies.

Eric Haase is a graduate student in geology from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He will travel to Egypt to explore water resources in the arid regions of the country as part of his comparative planetology research on Mars. 

Ashley Haislet, in a senior Education and Spanish major from Bryan, Texas.  She will travel to Argentina to study the role of culture in shaping the educational methods of language acquisition programming in public and private schools.  Ashley later decided to travel to Costa Rica instead because the majority of Argentina's schools are out of session during the summer.

Carey Matson is a graduate student in Veterinary Medicine.  She will travel to Madagascar to study the hematology of lemurs in order to benefit the captive breeding and conservation of the species.

Ryan McLemore in a sophomore Environmental Studies major.  He will travel to India to study the role of the cast system and the relationship between social groups and environmental problems.

Joni Patterson is a graduate student in Recreation, Parks, and Tourism from Texas City, Texas.  She will travel to Switzerland to study the social impacts of tourism on the tourist and host communities and the need for international tourism policy.

Karen Smirmaul is a graduate student in Veterinary Medicine from Duncanville, Texas.  She will travel to Nepal to train animal health workers in a rural clinic and at a veterinary school in Chitwan and to explore animal disease control.

Martin Terry is a graduate student in Botany.  He will to travel to Mexico on several expeditions to gather molecular data on the Lophophora genus of the cactus plant in order to investigate its taxonomic problems.

Robert Trujillo is a graduate student in Wildlife and Fisheries Science from El Rito, New Mexico.  He will travel to Ethiopia to survey the higher vertebrate diversity of the Aningeria forests as well as cultural aspects of conservation biology.