Whitewater native teaching, learning in United Arab Emirates
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University of Wisconsin-Whitewater graduate Sandra Knuteson teaches in the Middle East.
WHITEWATER -- Sandra Knuteson’s occasional classroom and part-time research lab is sometimes frequented by goats that stop to drink at the streams trickling through the rock-walled gullies known as wadis in the green mountainous regions and desert areas of the Middle East.
Knuteson, a 1996 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, does environmental research and teaches environmental science to students at the American University of Sharjah, one of the leading coeducational universities in the United Arab Emirates, where she’s starting her fifth year as an assistant professor.
Teaching in the UAE, a federation of seven emirates — each with its own ruler — has been an enriching experience, she said. Knuteson talked about her work at AUS during part of a summer break she was spending at her parents’ Whitewater home earlier this month before heading back for the start of a new semester.
Read the full story in the Aug. 30, 2009 e-edition of Walworth County Sunday, page 12A HERE.
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