Achievement

Each cohort of five or more students spends a full-year in a workshop working on a project in conjunction with a client or partnership. Students from each of the interdisciplinary areas (Biology, Geography, Wildlife, Fisheries, Math, and Statistics, etc.) work together to develop interdisciplinary approaches to the problem presented to them by clients. This year represents our fourth workshop year. This year, the students have been working with the USDA to model the potential for introduction of Rift Valley Fever into Florida. Their work has focused on early detection, identification of key entry points into the US, and the relative role of transportation routes and dynamics of the disease in Africa.