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Engagement Opportunities
**During this period of physical distancing engagement opportunities may be postponed or cancelled without notifying Green Guides. To find the most accurate information regarding engagement opportunity timelines, email listed opportunity contacts or visit the opportunity-specific websites.**
Engaged learning provides you with the opportunity to apply your learning outside the classroom in a way that has a meaningful impact on both you and the communities with which you connect. Through real-life collaboration, exploration and discovery, engaged learning takes you to the next level of understanding.
What are you waiting for? Check out Arizona Environment's comprehensive list of engagement opportunities and find the perfect fit for you to get your hands dirty!
Are we missing something? Send us an email at greenguides@arizona.edu, and we’ll feature it among these listings!
The Provost is looking for student assistance!
Students will receive compensation.
They are in desperate need of consistent student support at the Vaccination POD who can work 4 hour shifts.
They are in urgent need of some additional Scribes for the vaccination POD at UA’s Tucson campus, starting tomorrow 25th February and ongoing from there. They are particularly in need of individuals to assist for 3pm-11pm (evening shift) on weekdays, and on weekends between 9am - 4pm (day shift) and 3pm – 11pm (evening shift).
The Scribes partner with a vaccinator and complete the medical documentation for each inoculation in the VMS system on an iPad. Training will be provided.
Email DOS-deanofstudents@email.arizona.edu with the following info to express your interest:
Full name
Email address
Cell phone number
Available day(s) of the week and shifts (day or evening)
Thank you!
Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, NY offers a Summer Research Scholars Program for undergraduate students to carry out their own independent research projects in Entomology, Horticulture/Plant Breeding and Plant Pathology. Student interns work with faculty, their graduate students and postdocs on research projects focused on specialty crops that can be laboratory and/or field-based.
See attached flyer for more information!
The UC3 Spring 2021 Collaborative Sustainability Leadership program is offering fully remote, paid fellowship opportunities that generally overlap with the Spring 2021 semester (February-June). Eligible members for the Spring 2021 fellowship cohort include University of Arizona students (undergraduate and graduate), University of Arizona faculty/staff, and local residents including Tucson/Pima County/Tribal community members.
DUE JAN. 17, 2020
Undergraduate Research Opportunity (part-time, 10 hours/week)
Yellow‐Billed Cuckoo Data Entry and Analysis
CONSERVE facilitates the adoption of on‐farm water treatment solutions that enable the safe use of nontraditional irrigation water on food crops and effectively reduce the nation’s agricultural water challenges that are exacerbated by climate change.
DAWN is developing a decision support system that helps to increase land, nutrient, and water use efficiency in order to maximize crop production in maize, soy, and bioenergy fields.
Every year, the Scientists in Parks work experience program places hundreds of aspiring professionals across the National Park System to work on natural resource management needs. Past projects have mapped sand dunes at Fire Island National Seashore, surveyed towering cacti at Saguaro National Park, and protected nesting sea turtles at Padre Island National Seashore.
The City of Tucson's Environmental & General Services Department (EGSD) is looking for volunteers.
They are bringing back their Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event, but instead of it being at one location, they are moving it around the city.
It will be the second Saturday of every month from 8 a.m. to noon. The first event is January 9th at the Eastside City Hall at 7575 E Speedway Blvd. The calendar will be released soon to reveal the locations of the following events.
The Latino Heritage Internship Program (LHIP), created by the National Park Service (NPS) and administered in partnership with Environment for the Americas, is designed to provide internship opportunities to young adults in diverse professional fields in the National Park Service. The program helps raise awareness of our national parks and historic sites, their accessibility, and the need for the Latino community’s involvement in their preservation.
A Mosaics Intern is an entry level natural resource science internship that focuses on career exploration and building fundamental natural resource science skills. Each Mosaics Intern will receive a weekly stipend of $420, park-provided housing or a housing allowance and paid travel expenses. Interns who successfully complete 640 hours of work in one or more eligible internships and are under the age of 26 will be eligible for the Public Land Corps Non-competitive Hiring Authority for 120 days following the completion of the internship.
Regenerate Lebanon, a program of the NGO Recycle Lebanon, is a platform for conscious system change with a mission to strengthen the circular economy to promote sustainable development solutions. The online site will aggregate dispersed data about interconnected social and environmental issues. In doing so, the platform will facilitate access to information and then integrate opportunities for action, visualize data in unique ways for reuse, and incentivize users to scale game-changing solutions by means of interconnectivity across sectors and encourage long-term nature-based solutions.
UBRP provides opportunities for University of Arizona undergraduates to participate in a paid, mentored, summer research program involving inquiry, design, investigation, research, scholarship, discovery, and the presentation of experimental results. UBRP students select a faculty mentor and conduct research full time (35 hours/week) for a minimum of 12 weeks, and also participate in professional development meetings on Wednesday afternoons and network with other UBRP students through educational field trips and activities.
