This fall, Georgia Tech students will study French language, art, literature, and ecology — with a little help from the birds on campus.
As part of their new interdisciplinary project, "French Environmental Humanities and/in the Arts," Stéphanie Boulard and Andrea Jonsson in the School of Modern Languages installed a Haikubox behind the Swann Building that monitors bird songs, identifies the species present, and shares the information through a free app available to everyone.
The project is funded by a prestigious grant from the French embassy and focuses on ecology, biodiversity, and French and francophone environmental humanities at Georgia Tech. The School of Modern Languages is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.