Goals

Overarching Goals

• To create a new model program for graduate education centered on team-based collaboration across traditional disciplinary boundaries
• To cultivate a new generation of watershed science and management graduates trained in solving complex, real-world problems.

Objectives

• Produce students trained in cutting-edge research in their own field
• Produce students capable of integrating across multiple disciplines to gain a broad view of watershed problems and solutions
• Train students in integrating science n a management and policy making context
• Produce students intimately experiences with team-based problem solving
• Recruit, mentor, retain and graduate watershed scientists from under-represented groups

 

 

Why SIUC?

• Southern Illinois University  Carbondale is a Carnegie I Research University, the highest category for colleges and universities in the U.S. , with an internationally recognized research faculty
• SIUC ranks among the top 4% of U.S. higher educatio institutions for research activities
• For more information on research at SIUC, visit the web site for the Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research and Graduate Dean
• Carbondale, Illinois is a beautiful place to live and study.  To learn more, visit the site for the Carbondale Convention and Tourism Bureau