Each year the School seeks proposals for new, interdisciplinary partnerships of faculty to address sustainability grand challenges through creative research and synthesis activities. Global Challenges Research Teams advance sustainability through integration of environmental, societal, and economic knowledge in a team-based, creative approach to solve real-world problems.
Funding Years: 2024-2026 The Complexity of Anthropocene Migration Project (CAMP) team will lead path-breaking research into the 21st-century reasons of why and how people are (or are not) moving during
Funding Years: 2024-2026 Global declines of pollinator populations have raised concerns over food security and species extinctions. In response, efforts to “save the bees” have resulted in a large increase
Funding Years: 2024-2026 Nobel Prize-winning economist William Nordhaus has described the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) as the “most important single economic concept in the economics of climate change” (Nordhaus,
Funding Years: 2025-2027 Animal migration is spectacular and globally important, yet it is vanishing. Reversing this trend requires collaboration across geographies and jurisdictions since animals cross vast distances. Studying the
Funding Years: 2025-2027 The “Forest and Water Challenges in the Western U.S.” GCRT aims to investigate how changes in forest landscapes of the Rocky Mountains impact water resources across the
Funding Years: 2025-2027 The project focuses on using traditional food practices to improve food system sustainability and health, especially for vulnerable populations. In Zambia, mushrooms, a culturally important wild-harvested protein
Funding Years: 2025-2027 This project tackles one of the biggest challenges facing the construction industry: how to make sustainability not just good for the planet but also irresistible to developers.
Funding Years: 2025-2027 Natural disasters such as forest fires are increasing worldwide, exposing millions of people to air pollution hazards; however, research on how disasters affect personal exposure to air
The School issues a request for proposals each December with a late January deadline for the following academic year. Successful proposals will bring together researchers from across disciplines at CSU; address pressing global and regional sustainability issues through new research, new approaches to existing research, or research synthesis; are highly innovative and enterprising in their approach; and are applicable to real-world sustainability challenges. Join our mailing list to be notified when the request for proposals opens.
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