Awards Database

• Award Date: Jul 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

This award will support a part of the IndigiWellbeing Programming in FY24, in particular to bring world-renowned chef Sean Sherman, aka The Sioux Chef to the UA campus to share with the Native American students, faculty and staff, as well as other UArizona communities.

• Award Date: Jun 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

This award will support Anu Sethuraman, a PhD student in Environmental Science. Anu seeks to combine water quality/environmental exposures research with climate change research using a community engaged research framework on the Navajo Nation.

• Award Date: Jun 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

This award will support Christopher Yazzie, Diné and a PhD Student at the UA Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department in his  work related to equitable water access for Native American and Indigenous communities. The funds will be leveraged with other funds and provide Mr. Yazzie’s summer, fall and spring salary for FY24.

• Award Date: Jun 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

This award will support Don Unger, PhD student, in his research on Diné water issues related to the reclamation of coal and uranium mining sites on Dinétah Bikéyah.

Partners: Cara Shopa; Program Manager, University of Arizona Sponsor

• Award Date: Jun 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

This award will support Jessica Begay, Diné, a student at Diné College, in her investigation of the ecological importance of sagebrush populations and the effects of changing climatic conditions. In specific, this research proposal aims to compare the fungal endophytic communities of Artemisia species during the drought summer of 2021 and the subsequent summer following an unusual winter.

• Award Date: Jun 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

This award will support Mark Clytus, PhD Student at UA American Indian Studies in pursuing his research entitled "Indigenous Perspective for Cultural Sustainable Engineering Education Curriculum in Higher Education for Native American Students."

• Award Date: Jun 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

This award will support Nizhoni Tallas, Diné and a PhD student in Natural Resources & the Environment at the UArizona. Ms. Tallas’s research will examine the intersectionality of Indigenous communities within the national, tribal, and state parks.

• Award Date: Jun 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

This award will support or a third year of funding for an Administrative Assistant to the appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, (UNSRRIP/Special Rapporteur), Francisco Cali Tzay. This represents partial funding for the work.

• Award Date: Jun 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

This award will support the development of a dedicated website/student resource portal for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe-University of Arizona (PYT-UA) Microcampus and a UA Virtual Tribal Microcampus website network platform.

• Award Date: Jun 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

This is an annual award to James E Rogers College of Law to support an important program, the Justice Advocates Coalition (JAC). JAC was founded in 2017 and is a student-led initiative committed to empowering marginalized communities and nurturing law students interested in public interest law careers. Since its inception, JAC has sponsored 49 fellowships, valued at an impressive $140,750, with fellows working at esteemed organizations such as the ACLU, EarthJustice, Southern Arizona Legal Aid, and Lambda Legal Education and Defense Fund.

• Award Date: Jun 2023
• Duration: Ongoing
• Status: Ongoing

A part of a successful center is sufficient support staff and as the UArizona Indigenous Resilience is growing, the Haury Program commits to providing a continuous annual support for an Executive Assistant to Dr. Chief, IRes Director. This position will assist Dr. Chief in her administrative duties and outreach.

• Award Date: Jun 2023
• Duration: 3 years
• Status: Ongoing

The Haury Program is pleased to provide startup funds for the third new member of the UArizona Indigenous Resilience Center, Dr. Cherie Devore, a member of the Navajo Nation. Dr. DeVore is Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona and a core faculty of the UArizona Indigenous Resilience Center.

This support is a part of the larger ongoing commitment of the Haury DAF Board to establishment of the UA Indigenous Resilience Center. Dr. DeVore is a part of cluster hire for the new center, along with Dr. Hoover and Dr. Johnson. With the support of the Haury Program and through the Strategic Priorities Faculty Initiative (SPFI) through the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, along with the AIR Indigenous Resilience Center, the planning team designed a strategic hiring plan for stage one of the faculty expansion for IRes. It identified three strategic hires. In year one, two of these strategic hires, i.e. Dr. Hoover and Dr. Johnson accepted the UArizona offer for full time faculty positions and joined UArizona in fall of 2022. Dr. DeVore came to the UArizona in the Fall of 2023.

• Award Date: Jun 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

Under the direction and guidance from Dr. Jojola, a Visiting Scholar, IRes has designed a new space for professional staff and community. Haury Operational funds that were provided to IRes initially have played a key component in this initiative and could not be possible without the support. In addition to CatCard access, the Center will have a major overhaul of all furniture, including the new aesthetics, semi-private meeting space, and student/community workspace. The grand opening will occur in 2024.

• Award Date: Jun 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

This award supports continuation of the Indigenponics: Indigenizing Controlled Environment Agriculture project by 2022 Native Pathways Awardee Chantel Harrison (Dine) and Jaymus Lee (Dine) at the UArizona of Biosystems Engineering.

• Award Date: May 2023
• Duration: 2 years
• Status: Ongoing

IRes will host distinguished indigenous scholars, and provide opportunities for UArizona faculty, staff and beyond to participate in knowledge sharing.