EARLY CAREER SYNERGY GRANTS
EARLY CAREER SYNERGY GRANTS | Global Change Center
The GCC Early Career Synergy Grants program is a strategic initiative that combines our efforts to foster novel collaborations between faculty research programs with our desire to promote the development of early career researchers in our community.
This funding initiative seeks proposals from current GCC Postdoctoral Affiliates and later stage (3rd year or later) IGC IGEP Fellows that catalyze research collaborations between two or more GCC Faculty Affiliates. Priority will be given to funding proposals that establish connections between research programs with limited previous collaboration -or- established collaborators pursuing completely new research directions.
- Application Deadline: April 1, 2025
- Funding Decisions Announced: May 2025
For questions about the application process, contact the Global Change Center Program Coordinator, Steph McBride, at stephmcbride@vt.edu
GRANT RECIPIENTS | Global Change Center
This initiative was piloted in 2024. Congratulations to the following recipients of the Early Career Synergy Grants in the inaugural year of this program!
Learn more about each of their research projects here.
Priscilla dos Reis Cunha
Fish & Wildlife Conservation
Working with Dr. Leandro Castello & Dr. Elizabeth Nyboer
Project Title: Social-ecological drivers of arapaima poaching in the Amazon
Tori Hymel
Planning, Governance, and Globalization
Working with Dr. Gillian Eastwood & Dr. Todd Schenk
Project Title: Expanding Sierra Leone’s One Health initiatives to include deforestation, urban development, and their threats to human, wildlife, and ecosystem health
Claudia Nuñez-Penichet
Fish & Wildlife Conservation
Working with Dr. Haldre Rogers & Joseph Uyeda
Project Title: Implications of selections of methodological approach on inferences of ecological niche evolution
Anna Pérez-Umphrey
Biological Sciences
Working with Dr. Dana Hawley & Dr. Chloé Lahondère