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Our friends at the University of Washington College of the Environment are launching a new program to change the face of conservation. The Doris Duke Foundation is helping the UW to start a multi-summer, undergraduate immersion-learning program with a vision of creating a more diverse and inclusive community of conservation professionals. Once the grant was secured, an immediate challenge was to quickly recruit the first cohort of undergraduates for this summer’s program and an accessible and visually compelling website was key to their outreach efforts.

We worked with Darin Reid of Elegant Contraption to build the recruitment site. Our task was to illustrate a series of 11 provocative questions such as:

• Why does human diversity matter to biodiversity?
• Who bears the brunt of environmental disasters?
• Can food production and biodiversity coexist? Which would you choose?

We paired each question with an image from our archives or from local photographers Daniel Beltrá and Tom Reese. To put a face to these future leaders, we also made black and white portraits of UW students and faculty members who represent this growing community.

uwconservationscholars.org (Refresh the page to load a new set of images.)

Applications for the 2014 program are due January 31, 2014. Help spread the word!