The Center For Watershed Research and Service
About Us
Nonprofit organizations perform vital service in the restoration of watersheds, both at home and abroad. These nonprofits often affect great positive change with very limited personnel and budgets, impacts that could be amplified with technical assistance, focused research or simply additional manpower.
This is where the Center for Watershed Research & Service (CWRS) at Saint Francis University is called to serve. The CWRS helps match nonprofit partners in need of assistance with faculty and students from various academic schools and degree programs at Saint Francis University.
Mission
The Center's mission is to provide expert assistance and manpower to amplify the watershed restoration efforts of domestic and international nonprofit organizations and to advance the watershed restoration body of knowledge.
Methods
- Real class projects in the service of nonprofit partners.
- Student-professor research teams investigating fundamental and applied research questions of interest to nonprofit partners.
- Service-learning internships pairing student interns and mentoring professors with nonprofit partners.
- Mobilization of the SFU student body for large volunteer events held by nonprofit partners