Photo provided Individuals, including Giorgia Auteri, left front, work at a conservation genetics workshop at the Institute of Forestry at Tribhuvan University in Katmandu, Nepal, using materials that were crafted by a 3-D printer in Columbus, Indiana’s Propeller makerspace.
A Columbus East High School graduate recently used materials created at a local makerspace to help facilitate a conservation genetics workshop in Nepal.
Giorgia Auteri graduated from East in 2006 and is now an assistant professor of biology at Missouri State University (MSU). She left for Nepal in mid-July and returned to the states on Aug. 12.
Her brother, Matteo Auteri, is a lab technician at Columbus Propeller, which provided 3-D printed materials that were used in the workshop.
In 2022, Giorgia Auteri was awarded a grant from Conservation Nation for a project focusing on Himalayan black bears in the…
