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WKU Students Study History
Bowling Green, Ky. - A Western Kentucky University faculty member and eight students recently spent two weeks in England for a study abroad course.
Dr. Jeffrey Marcus, an assistant professor in WKU's biology department, taught a course titled "British Contributions to the History of Biology 1800-Present" from Dec. 26 to Jan. 8. The course was one of 14 offered in London through the Cooperative Center for Study Abroad, based at Northern Kentucky University. WKU students who took the course were Jenny Ausenbaugh of Hopkinsville, Pam Coffey of Liberty, Natalina Elliott of Hermitage, Tenn., Riley "Beau" Jones of Bowling Green, Jennifer Jordan of Smiths Grove, Shawn Peavie of Monticello, Katie Reynolds of Somerset and Elizabeth Sproles of Bowling Green. The class included three students from Murray State University. While in London, the class visited the John Snow Pump and Museum, the Science Museum, the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, the Sedgwick Museum of Geology, the Alexander Fleming Museum, Westminster Abbey and Cambridge University. The group also went behind the scenes at the British Natural History Museum, the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and the Sanger Genome Sequencing Institute. Outside of formal class activities, they also visited Warwick and Dover Castles, Stonehenge, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Canterbury Cathedral, the Roman Ruins at Bath, and many important historical and cultural sites in London. More WKU news is available at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via e-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.
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