AIR Education
Experiential Opportunities in Environment and Resilience
Undergraduate
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.
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.
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.
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.
Resilience Internships and Student Experiences (RISE)
The RISE program within AIR provides funding to University of Arizona undergraduate and graduate students completing resilience internships that cross academic boundaries and international borders.
Graduate
Carson Scholars
The Carson Scholars Graduate Program is dedicated to training the next generation of environmental researchers in the art of public communication.
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.
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.
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.
Resilience Graduate Research Awards Program
Resilience Graduate Research Awards Program (formerly known as Native Pathways Graduate Research Awards Program) is designed and administered by the Haury Program to strengthen the academic pathways for Resilience students and scholars, with an emphasis on University of Arizona programs and people devoted to tribal resilience education, research, and outreach.
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.
Resilience Internships and Student Experiences (RISE)
The RISE program within AIR provides funding to University of Arizona undergraduate and graduate students completing resilience internships that cross academic boundaries and international borders.
High School
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.
Professional
Lovejoy Fellows Program
This nascent program will support emerging scientists, policy experts, communicators, and educators from diverse disciplines, identities, and geographies in biodiversity science and policy.
Meet the Team
AIR Education Partners
Our Find Your Environment Major Exploration Advisor supports students through The A Center in collaboration with the Arizona Institute for Resilience. We are grateful for The A Center's partnership in providing this valuable resource.
