Overview

AIR Education

Experiential Opportunities in Environment and Resilience

High School

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Find Your Research Environment (FYRE)

Find Your Research Environment (FYRE) provides meaningful campus introductions to local high school students planning to attend the University of Arizona and interested in science, environment, and resilience.

Undergraduate

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Diana Liverman Scholars

Grounded in a connection to place, community, and one another, the Diana Liverman Scholars Program prepares undergraduate students to become environmental leaders, communicators, and problem-solvers.

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Earth Grant

The Earth Grant program is a year-long leadership development program for a diverse cohort of select UArizona students passionate about environmental and community resilience. Individually, each student is matched with a mentor working in their field of interest for a 5-20 hr/week paid internship.

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Find Your Environment

As a U of A student interested in environmental topics and issues, there are many ways you can get involved - such as taking a few courses, volunteering in the community, interning over the summer, majoring in one (or two!) of many relevant environment and resilience degrees, and more.

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Ilíiaitchik: Indigenous Correspondents Program

The Ilíiaitchik: Indigenous Correspondents Program supports 10-12 Indigenous students through a year-long professional development, communication skill-building, and community-building program led by Indigenous mentors in fields ranging from environmental journalism and science, to photography and music production.

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Resilience Internships and Student Experiences

The Resilience Internships and Student Experiences (RISE) program within AIR provides funding to University of Arizona undergraduate students completing resilience internships that cross academic boundaries and international borders.

Graduate

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Carson Scholars

The Carson Scholars Graduate Program is dedicated to training the next generation of environmental researchers in the art of public communication.

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Environment and Society Graduate Fellows

The Environment & Society Fellowship was created in 2013 as a funding opportunity for graduate students to practice use-inspired, collaborative research and science communication. The Fellowship supports projects that connect social or physical sciences with the environment and decision-making.

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Institute for Energy Solutions Graduate Student Summer Fellowship

The Institute for Energy Solutions Summer Fellowship Program provides graduate students with the opportunity to work in research laboratories, private industry, government agencies and NGO's on renewable energy-water related research and projects. This is the perfect opportunity for students to work outside of their current research lab and work in a setting that will enrich their studies.

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Native Pathways Graduate Research Awards

The Haury Program is pleased to announce an open call for Native Pathways Graduate Research Award proposals to support the research of graduate students who bring knowledge and experience on matters relevant to Native American and Indigenous resilience. Graduate students from disciplines that specifically address Indigenous resilience are invited to apply.

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Natural Resource Workforce Development Fellowship

The Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (SW CASC) Natural Resources Workforce Development (NRWD) Fellowship was developed to provide graduate students with opportunities for training and practice in developing use-inspired and actionable science to inform natural resource management decisions.

RISE interns and docents with bicycles at Miller Park.

Resilience Internships and Student Experiences (RISE)

The Resilience Internships and Student Experiences (RISE) program within AIR provides funding to University of Arizona undergraduate students completing resilience internships that cross academic boundaries and international borders.

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Resilience Masters

The Master’s in Resilience Practice program emphasizes hands-on, solutions-oriented learning that prepares students for leadership roles in the rapidly growing resilience, adaptation, and sustainability career sector.

Professional

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Lovejoy Fellows Program

The Lovejoy Fellowship Program will support fellows from diverse disciplines, identities, and geographies through scholarships to ensure increased matriculation in, and pursuit of, biodiversity science and policy by emerging scientists, policy experts, communicators, and educators.

Meet the Team

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Kevin Bonine

Director, AIR Education

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Denisse Ortega Lorona

Program Manager, AIR Education

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Maria Sohn Hasman

Program Coordinator, Resilience Internships and Student Experiences (RISE)