TWO UPT FACULTY TRAVEL TO TANZANIA

 

Dr. Linda Winkler, Associate Professor of Biology and Anthropology was awarded a Hewett International Grant.

Mr. Joseph Croskey, Assistant Instructor of Computer Sciences, traveled with Dr. Winkler to Tanzania to develop service course.

TITUSVILLE, June 20 -- Two UPT faculty recently traveled to northwestern Tanzania to develop a study abroad/service course in the health sciences.  Linda Winkler, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology and Biology at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville, was awarded a Hewett International Grant by the Provost’s Office at the University of Pittsburgh for the project.

Winkler and Mr. Joseph Croskey, assistant instructor of Computer Sciences at UPT, spent two weeks in the Karagwe/Kagera region of Tanzania working with a Tanzanian doctor who serves as director of a local hospital and several clinics.


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