Jacqueline McLaughlin, an associate professor of biology at Penn State Lehigh Valley, has been appointed a member of the Asian Section and the chair of the Education and Student Affairs Committee of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) by Geri Unger, executive director of SCB.
SCB is an international professional organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study of the phenomena that affect the maintenance, loss and restoration of biological diversity.
The Society's membership includes a wide range of people interested in the conservation and study of biological diversity. Resource managers, educators, government and private conservation workers, and students make up the more than 5,000 members worldwide.
The SCB will be teaming up with the French Foundation for Research on Biodiversity (FRB) this summer to host the 27th International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB) and the 4th European Congress for Conservation Biology (ECCB). This event will be held Aug. 2-6, 2015, in Montpellier, France.
McLaughlin will be presenting the engaged scholarship efforts of the award-winning Penn State CHANCE (Connecting Humans and Nature through Conservation Experiences) program at this event. Her talk, “Impacting Student Learning, Attitudes, Behaviors, and Career Choices through Real-World Conservation Experiences,” will address how the use of innovative, interdisciplinary and informal (outdoor and international) teaching and learning strategies that blend field research, conservation efforts and teaching can effectively mold students into future conservationists.