One of the primary goals of CEJS is to support the scholarship of Seattle University students and faculty who are engaged in Environmental Justice and Sustainability (EJS) endeavors. Each year CEJS awards two faculty fellowships (with a course release or $6,000 summer stipend) and two student fellowships (with a $2,500 stipend per student project).
The "Laudato Si" Faculty Fellowships honor Pope Francis's initiative to promote integral human development by encouraging concrete actions in the care of our common home. The fellowships are offered to faculty members who dedicate their scholarly endeavor to the research of tools, resources and solutions that advance total sustainability in the spirit of integral ecology.
The Gary L. Chamberlain Student Research Fellowship honors Dr. Gary Chamberlain who taught at Seattle University from 1979 until 2009 in the Theology and Religious Studies Department.
The Francis Student Research Fellowship honors the patron saint of the animals and of ecology, St. Francis of Assisi and his namesake Pope Francis who, through Laudato Si, encourages us to Care for Our Common Home, to consider the inextricable link between environmental and social sustainability and “to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor”.
Check out what CEJS student and faculty fellows have done in the past here.