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diverse landscape and population, you will find all this and more in the land down under. Australia is a vast land of cosmopolitan cities and endless wilderness. Many United States students choose to study abroad in Australia because English is the official language, its universities are highly-ranked, and the higher education system gives students opportunities to conduct independent research. Australia’s unique history has shaped the diversity of its peoples, and the current state of diversity and

Lyanda Lynn Haupt is an award-winning author, speaker, and naturalist whose work is at the forefront of the movement to connect people with nature in their everyday lives. She is the author of Rare Encounters With Ordinary Birds, winner of the Washington State Book Award; Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and other Lessons from Darwin’s Lost Notebooks; and Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness, winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award

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exposed to with other paid wildlife rehabilitation internships that I considered for this summer…” Read more about Breana’s experience below! LEARN MORE Annica Stiles ’25 explores Iceland’s wilderness and culture “This advice could be more creative, but get out of your comfort zone. It will be worth it, and this is the easiest time in your life to take advantage of these opportunities and either get academic credit, financial compensation, or something to add to your portfolio or resume. Find

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life and how modern social expectations inhibit me from achieving my own standard of happiness. Being able to experience intense philosophical conversations while being surrounded by the wilderness helped me to put into perspective how these conversations really effect our communities and environment A piece of advice to future study away students: Challenge yourself to pack less — once you return home you will be impressed with how little you really need to survive off of. Take advantage of

, the program continued to grow and evolve. During the ’97-98 school year, OR expanded to weeklong trips, one to Montana for skiing and another to Oregon’s Smith Rock for climbing. Wade also began running a basic staff training that discussed risk management in the outdoors, and he held periodic wilderness medicine mini-seminars that addressed what incidents could arise outdoors and how to handle them. “For a lot of us, it was our first foray into real leadership,” Wade said. “It was a tremendous

physician there. FROM THE MIND TO MEDICINE Many of Foege’s friends and colleagues know the story: While incapacitated for months in a body cast due to a hip injury as a teenager, he read about the medical missionary work of physician-philosopher Albert Schweitzer. What some may not know is that Foege’s original interest in medicine was psychiatry. “I’d read a book about this psychiatrist who was really operating like a detective, a detective of the mind,” he said. That interest eventually lost out to

So You Want to be a Veterinarian?Are you scientifically-minded and passionate about the health and well-being of animals? If so, vet medicine could be the perfect career choice for you! Veterinary medicine offers a broad variety of career opportunities. The majority of veterinarians work in private small, large or mixed animal clinical practices diagnosing and treating illnesses of animals and maintaining their health. Many other veterinarians practice with county, state and federal governments