
Applications Call for the 2025-2026 Earth and Environmental Climate Justice Scholar Awards
The UC Davis Institute of the Environment and the Environmental and Climate Justice Hub are excited to announce our next applications call for the Earth and Environmental and Climate Justice Scholar awards.
The Institute’s scholars are striving to endeavor into research that compliments the Institute’s pillars of managing water, transitioning energy, sequestering carbon, building resilience to fire, improving health, and inspiring action through art.
Earth Scholars are graduate students who advance progress on the Institute’s pillars and initiatives and Environmental and Climate Justice Scholars engage in work that clearly contributes to environmental justice, including the resolution of environmental inequalities or the improvement of environmental health.
Earth Scholars
- The Earth Scholar Program is designed for graduate students who advance progress on the Institute of the Environment's thematic pillars and initiatives.
- Each Earth Scholar is awarded $8000 to work toward implementing environmental and climate solutions.
- Earth Scholars are encouraged to pursue projects that bridge disciplines and advance environmental justice.
- Earth Scholars will have opportunities to meet with communication experts to learn how to best translate science to the public. Each Earth Scholar is also expected to present their progress to the public at the end of the year.
Environmental and Climate Justice Scholars
- This opportunity is offered by the Environmental and Climate Justice Hub at the UC Davis Institute of the Environment.
- Successful proposals will involve environmental studies and/or sciences research that clearly contributes to environmental justice, including the resolution of environmental inequalities or the improvement of environmental health.
- Each Environmental and Climate Justice Scholar is awarded $8000 to work toward implementing environmental and climate solutions.
Apply by May 1, 2025
- Please email us with any questions about the awards and application process and submit your application to environment@ucdavis.edu