Earth Institute
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The top, leading-edge center for the integrated study of the Earth, its environment, and society, the Earth Institute has leveraged the vast intellectual power of Columbia University’s faculty since 1996 to establish and nurture cross-disciplinary collaborations, actively addressing the world’s most complex economic, health, and environmental challenges. Through its research, education, and action, the Earth Institute has become the world’s leading academic center confronting the practical challenges of sustainable development.
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General Earth Institute Support
Ensure that the Earth Institute will continue to be a leader in climate, water, and energy science.
Your unrestricted gift provides funds that help the Earth Institute respond to immediate needs.
For more information, contact:
Laurie Schnidman
Development Associate
The Earth Institute, Hogan Hall
2910 Broadway, 1st Floor
New York, NY 10027
212-854-7878
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Columbia Water Center
Enable Columbia's Water Center to continue finding comprehensive solutions to water related challenges in India, Mali, Brazil, and China.
Headed by Silberstein Professor of Engineering Upmanu Lall, the Columbia Water Center brings together partners in four targeted countries, as well as researching the problems of water scarcity, unsustainable irrigation methods, and more.
For more information, contact:
Laurie Schnidman
Development Associate
The Earth Institute, Hogan Hall
2910 Broadway, 1st Floor
New York, NY 10027
212-854-7878
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Columbia Climate Center
Help the Climate Center to address pressing issues in climate change, such as greenhouse gas emission.
The Center works to increase scientific knowledge about climate change, analyze policy, and solve real-world problems. Led by Vinton Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering Peter Schlosser, the Columbia Climate Center is becoming the hub for climate-related science at Columbia.
For more information, contact:
Laurie Schnidman
Development Associate
The Earth Institute, Hogan Hall
2910 Broadway, 1st Floor
New York, NY 10027
212-854-7878
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Millennium Villages Project
Help fight poverty at the village level by supporting a Millennium Village.
Enable villages in Sub-Saharan Africa to break out of the poverty trap and build sustainable, growing, healthy communities. Through community-led development, rural Africa can achieve the Millennium development goals--reducing extreme poverty and hunger by half and improving education, health, gender equality, and environmental sustainability--by 2015.
For more information, contact:
Laurie Schnidman
Development Associate
The Earth Institute, Hogan Hall
2910 Broadway, 1st Floor
New York, NY 10027
212-854-7878
$750
Student Travel Fund
Sponsor a student to attend conferences around the world, working alongside our faculty.
Travel is a crucial component of students' exposure to the global issues.
For more information, contact:
Louise Rosen
Director, Earth Institute
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
212-854-0643
$2,000
Student Research Assistantship
Help students gain unique and valuable experience by working directly with Earth Institute scientists.
By funding a research assistantship, you enable students across multiple disciplines to make vital contributions to projects such as AIDS monitoring and control, improving potable water in Bangladesh, examining the nuclear contamination of the Hudson River, global climate change, and urban environmental issues.
For more information, contact:
Louise Rosen
Director, Earth Institute
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
212-854-0643
$5,000
The Earth Clinic
Help developing countries solve urgent issues of economic development, public health, energy systems, water management, agriculture, and infrastructure.
World leaders consult with the Earth Institute to solve pressing issues for their respective countries. At the Earth Clinic, students collaborate with some of the top scientists in the world to address large-scale issues of sustainable development through basic and applied research, and practice.
For more information, contact:
Laurie Schnidman
Development Associate
The Earth Institute, Hogan Hall
2910 Broadway, 1st Floor
New York, NY 10027
212-854-7878
$6,500
Summer Internship
Give students the opportunity to spend three months working in the field alongside Earth Institute faculty.
This interdisciplinary program connects Columbia undergraduate and graduate students to the entire Earth Institute.
For more information, contact:
Louise Rosen
Director, Earth Institute
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
212-854-0643
Help master's students combine scientific interests with careers in public policy, management, education, conservation, or journalism. A gift of $70,000 will fully fund a fellow.
For more information, contact:
Louise Rosen
Director, Earth Institute
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
212-854-0643
$10,000
Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI)
Invest in the future of African cities and help foster new economic relationships with Millennium Villages.
Help cities to attract investment by boosting opportunities and vehicles for talks with foreign investors. Ensure that stakeholders can carry out needs assessments to learn what is needed in each city to achieve the Millennium development goals in each municipality.
For more information, contact:
Laurie Schnidman
Development Associate
The Earth Institute, Hogan Hall
2910 Broadway, 1st Floor
New York, NY 10027
212-854-7878
$75,000
Earth Institute Fellows
Support a named fellow in any number of our cross-cutting initiatives.
Help Earth Institute fellows to apply their expertise to reduce hunger, disease, and environmental degradation, particularly in nations ravaged by the AIDS pandemic, climate change, and extreme poverty. Bolster worldwide knowledge of social, natural, and information sciences by supporting a CIESIN fellow or visiting scientist for one academic year. CIESN fellows are experts in online data and information management, spatial data integration, and training. Fund a Fellow for $75,000 per year over two years or endow a named Earth Institute Fellowship in perpetuity for $1.5 million.
For more information, contact:
Laurie Schnidman
Development Associate
The Earth Institute, Hogan Hall
2910 Broadway, 1st Floor
New York, NY 10027
212-854-7878
$100,000
The Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Laboratory Building
Develop the frontiers of climate science, solid earth dynamics, and ocean chemistry.
Your gift of $100,000 or more to the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences will allow you to name a laboratory, auditorium, or office space in the observatory's new, state-of-the-art Comer Geochemistry Building.
For more information, contact:
Sarah Huard
Director for Development
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
P.O. Box 1000
Palisades, New York 10964-8000
845-365-8599
Graduates go on to become policy-makers as well as researchers and professors in social-science disciplines, policy schools, and undergraduate and graduate environmental science programs.
For more information, contact:
Louise Rosen
Director, Earth Institute
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
212-854-0643
$600,000
Lamont-Doherty Research Scientist
Put the Observatory in a better position to pursue solutions to the most challenging problems facing the Earth and its future.
By endowing a Lamont-Doherty Research Scientist position in the field of your choice, you enable the Earth Institute to attract and retain scientists of the highest caliber.
For more information, contact:
Sarah Huard
Director for Development
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
P.O. Box 1000
Palisades, New York 10964-8000
845-365-8599
$1,500,000
Endowed Educational Programs
Help students from developing countries to study with the leading thinkers in sustainable development.
The 26 academic programs affiliated with the Earth Institute represent one of the largest consortiums of environmental education programs in the world.
For more information, contact:
Louise Rosen
Director, Earth Institute
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
212-854-0643
$3,000,000
Earth Institute Professorship
Help establish a named professorship, allowing the Earth Institute to attract the most distinguished scholars.
An endowed professorship is among the highest honors a university can confer. By creating an endowed chair, you ensure that the Earth Institute attracts a professor with broad understanding of the field as it now exists, an important vision for the future, and an exceptional ability to communicate that understanding and vision to others.
For more information, contact:
Barbara Charbonnet
Associate Director of Funding Initiatives
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
2910 Broadway, 1st Floor
New York, NY 10027
212-870-3035
