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Administered by the Environmental Resilience Institute with support from ESSI, the McKinney Climate Fellows (MCF) is a paid workforce development program for undergraduate and graduate students focused on climate, sustainability, and community resilience. The program partners with Indiana-based private, public, and nonprofit organizations to host student fellows and provide solutions-based sustainability expertise. Applications are open for the Summer 2025 cohort and close at 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, Nov. 1.
Grants are available for IU undergraduate and graduate student research in the environmental sciences (e.g., ecology, geology, atmospheric science, human-environment interactions) at the Indiana University Research and Teaching Preserve (RTP) properties. Annually, several awards of up to $4,000 each are granted on a competitive basis. The goals of this grant program are to encourage and advance student research, and to develop a long-term environmental database for the RTP.
Together with Sustain IU, this award program is designed to support collaborative, interdisciplinary efforts of students to develop new, externally-funded research related to sustainability. Successful proposals have clearly stated goals and objectives, employ appropriate methods and tools, and address sustainability challenges, such as resource stewardship, assessment and mitigation of environmental impacts caused by human activity, and institutional and societal responses to ecological change.