We are the heart and soul of sustainability,
where humanity and nature connect.
Our Sustainability Strategy
A sustainable world is a diverse, safe, healthy, and just world for all planetary life while living within a thriving environment that is ecologically viable over the long term. The College of the Liberal Arts Sustainability Council has three tenets of focus that help the College achieve this goal.
Operations
We provide recommendations for how the College can responsibly use natural resources, care for the planet, and work with efforts led by the Sustainability Institute.
Resources that facilitate each of these efforts can be found through our Events or Opportunities pages and on the pages for research, education, and involvement.
Events and Opportunities
Events
Opportunities
Deadline to Apply: September 30, 2023
Brief Overview of the WMF Program: WISER|MURE|FURP (or WMF for short) is a student research internship program at Penn State – University Park supported by the NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium. This program offers first-year students a two-semester (spring and fall semesters of one calendar year) faculty-mentored internship in a research laboratory at Penn State-UP. The NASA...
Deadline to Apply: October 15, 2023
Link to the Student award page where you can find the application. Goal: The Sustainability Council seeks to support students performing sustainability-focused research in the Penn State College of the Liberal Arts during the spring and/or summer of 2024. Students can apply for funds to conduct independent research projects under the supervision of a CLA faculty...
Deadline to Apply: October 31, 2023 by 5pm
The submission portal for the Fall 2023 cycle of the RISE Indigenous Research Grants Program is now open! The Indigenous Research Grants Program will provide funding to graduate student, post-doctoral, faculty, and non-academic researchers. Grants are typically issued up to $5,000 for graduate student and post-doctoral researchers and up to $10,000 for PhD level and non-academic researchers. Grants are intended to cover short-term...
Deadline to Apply: November 29, 2023 by 5pm
The Institute of Energy and the Environment’s Seed Grant Program is intended to foster basic and applied research on strategic interdisciplinary topics that leverage faculty expertise across the University. The Seed Grant Program strives to: All proposals for the 2024 Seed Grant Program must be submitted through InfoReady: https://psu.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1915332 Proposals are due by November 29, 2023, by 5pm (EST). Please...
Our events can also be found on the College of the Liberal Arts’s main calendar. For additional information on upcoming opportunities, please visit the Opportunities page.