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Gratitude

Evergreen students explore, faculty are invigorated and scholarship recipients flourish — thanks to generous donors.

Make a gift to the Evergreen Annual Fund and you'll enhance the quality of the Evergreen experience. Programs like Student Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF), Faculty Foundation Grants, and Foundation Scholarships are made possible through the generosity of donors. Thank you! 

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EXPLORE

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships
18 undergraduates will participate in 8 different fellowships this summer, supported in part by the Annual Fund.

INVIGORATE

Faculty Foundation Grants
Now in its tenth year, Foundation grants allow faculty to pursue their passions thanks to generous gifts to the Annual Fund. This year, nine faculty received awards.

FLOURISH

Foundation Scholarships
122 scholarships were awarded for 2017, made possible by gifts to the Annual Fund.

In this video, Evergreen students express their gratitude for scholarships.

 

FACULTY FOUNDATION GRANTS 2017

Thanks to your gifts to the Annual Fund, nine Evergreen faculty will engage in research and creative work that reinvigorates them and fosters student engagement. Learn more about the Evergreen faculty members working on research this year.

Art & Politics: Kathleen Eamon

The Political Afterlife of Art in Craft and Tactile Sensibility

Islamic Theology: Sarah Eltantawi

Supporting a variety of scholarly activities related to Islamic theology

Black Sea Colonization: Ulrike Krotscheck

Comparative Ionian Colonization in the Black Sea and the Western Mediterranean

Fine Art Residency: Naima Lowe

Supporting an artist residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

Chile and Cultural Memory: Alice Nelson

Resisting Reconciliation: Intergenerational Memory and Cultural Production in Post-Pinochet Chile

Ornithology in the Field: Alison Styring

Bird Diversity, Ecology, and Conservation in Totally Protected Areas in Borneo

Climate Justice: Leonard Schwartz and Shangrila Wynn

The Poetics and Politics of Nature: An Exploration of Ecological Consciousness and Climate Justice in Nepal

Neoliberalism: Anthony Zaragoza

Neoliberalism in the Neighborhood

SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH 2017

Thanks to generous gifts to Evergreen's Annual Fund from donors like you, Evergreen students have opportunities to partner with faculty to do some not-so-simple, really quite amazing research this summer.

Birds: with Alison Styring

Summer Research in Field Ornithology

Cyber Games: with Richard Weiss

Research in Cyber Security: Educational Cyber Security Games

Forest Ecosystems: with Abir Biswas

Biogeochemical Cycling in Pacific Northwest Forest Ecosystems

Huge Granite Sculpture: with Bob Leverich

Sculptural Work in Stone: A Public Outdoor Work for Vashon Island High School

Jellyfish: with Eric V. Thuesen

Ecophysiology of Ctenophores

Moss: with Lalita Calabria

Field and Laboratory Studies of Nitrogen fixing Moss-Cyanobacteria Symbiosis in Puget Sound Prairies

Social Movements: with Lori Blewett

Changing Social Movement Rhetoric and the Inertia of Language

The End of Art: with Kathleen Eamon

Hegel's End of Art Thesis and the Political Afterlife of Art in Craft and Tactile Sensibilities

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