Bowling Green, Ky. - Biologists from Western Kentucky University and the National Institute of Biology in Slovenia have received an $18,400 grant from the Slovenian government to support an exchange program in the summer of 2006 and 2007.

Dr. Philip Lienesch, Dr. Keith Philips and Dr. Richard Bowker of WKU’s Biology Department, and Dr. Anton Brancelj and Dr. Al Vrezec of the National Institute of Biology in Slovenia, received the funding to support scientific research cooperation between the Republic of Slovenia and the United States of America.

In each year, Dr. Bancelj and Dr. Vrezec will visit the WKU Biology Department to conduct research in Mammoth Cave National Park. In exchange, Dr. Lienesch and Dr. Philips will travel to the Central European nation to work on fish and insect populations in Slovenian caves.

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For information, contact Philip Lienesch at (270) 745-6006.

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