We are continuing to support our renowned faculty with investments in key research areas that will uncover new knowledge and new ways to address major environmental challenges.
Programmatic funding provides extra resources to support cutting-edge research and sustain hallmark programs.
For our faculty and, by extension, our world to thrive, we must recruit and train the best and brightest graduate students. To do that, we need to increase the financial resources available to support them.
Target Impact
$23 million
At ESF, our internationally renowned faculty take center stage, making discoveries and developing techniques that push the boundaries of knowledge. ESF researchers make discoveries that improve our world. We will better the human condition and make secure the future of our planet.
The key to making this significant impact on the Earth is enhancing support for, and expanding the scope of, our hallmark research programs.
We will increase support for graduate students who are pivotal in accomplishing this work.
Research in Action
Dr. Robin Kimmerer is inspiring people worldwide to rethink how they interact with nature and reconnect not only with the world around them but also with themselves.
Erica Wood is a master’s student in Conservation Biology and a Sloan Indigenous Fellow at the CNPE. Wood’s research focus is Arctic plant ecology in the Alaskan tundra, specifically the salmonberry plant (Rubus chamaemorus).
Patricia Morais Fernandes, a postdoctoral researcher in the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project lab, is attempting to save the Ozark chinkapin. Fernandes is looking to secure more funding to keep researching the under-studied tree.
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The Lawn to Meadow program, developed by Samuel A. Quinn ‘07, a research assistant with the RSC’s Conservation on Private Lands Initiative, works to restore natural habitats and engage private landowners in the process.
