Hampton University Golfer, Crystal Smitherman to Study in Brazilian Rainforest

CRYSTAL SMITHERMAN
PHOTO COURTESY: HAMPTON  UNIVERSITY

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Hampton University senior and Birmingham native Crystal Smitherman will spend four weeks in Brazil seeing up close what she's previously spent years reading about.

Smitherman was selected to participate in a four-week exchange in Brazil on the campus of the Iracambi Rainforest Research Center and on the Rio Pomba campus of the Federal Technical Institute of Southeastern Minas Gerais. The course in the Atlantic Rainforest begins today.

Smitherman, who is majoring in biological science, is one of six Hampton students selected to participate the all-expense-paid program that offers opportunities for American and Brazilian students to live and study together in a practical internship in the fields of biodiversity conservation, agro-ecology and sustainable environmental management.

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