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By 2025, half of the world's population will have increasingly limited access to clean water.

We foster the professional development of a new generation of scientists who reflect the broad range of perspectives in today’s society within transdisciplinary sustainability science and innovation.
We have three synergistic programs that serve a wide range of groups in sustainability STEM: The GSS Scholars program serves undergraduates, GSS Early Career Fellows serves graduate students, and the RaMP-UP Tropical BioDiversity Fellows Program serves postbaccalaureates.
By 2025, half of the world's population will have increasingly limited access to clean water.
Food production will have to increase by 50% by 2050.
Feeding a world of 9 billion will take new approaches.
"Environmental issues don't have borders. Coming from an island state, Jamaica, I know how critical it is to work across the globe on issues like climate change and sea level rise. If we want to make any impact on the way things are going, we need to act now and together."
– Keren Alfred, Brown University
Support our students! All donations directly support Global Sustainability Scholars and Fellows. Successful global sustainability solutions are innovative, involving a diversity of stakeholders and incorporating multiple values. Our program does just that, brings in the voices and perspectives across borders and cultures, trains them in doing trans-disciplinary research and builds their international professional network.