Our Mission: Our Mission: to diversify and advance the ecology profession through opportunities that stimulate and nurture the interest of underrepresented students to participate, and to lead in ecology.

• Core components of hands-on experiences with ecology that show the relevance and applications of the field
• Connecting students to faculty at VCU,
• Events to promote undergraduate research, community service, field trips, scholarships, workshops, graduate school programs, internships, and jobs.