Support CEID
Financial support from individual, foundation, and corporate partners is crucial for CEID to continue driving research and educating the next generation of scientists. While many of our projects are funded by grants and contracts, core CEID programs and cross-disciplinary collaboration depend on special funding. Regardless of size, your gift has an impact.
You can also mail a check, payable to the UGA Foundation, to: UGA Gift Accounting Office, 394 South Milledge Avenue, Suite 100, Athens GA 30602. Please be sure to indicate “Ecology – CEID” on the memo line. If you are interested in creating an endowment, establishing a planned gift, or discussing sponsorship or contract opportunities, please contact Dr. John Drake.
How Does Your Gift Support CEID’s Mission?
As funding permits, CEID operates a competitive postdoctoral research program, known as CEID Postdoctoral Scholars. This program invites most promising early-career scientists to UGA to join our research on Ebola, Zika, Dengue and the ecology of all infectious diseases. The “postdoc” – a position similar to residency in clinical medicine – is one of the most important, but overlooked stages of scientific training. CEID Postdoctoral Scholars dedicate themselves to research and training in preparation to assume faculty positions and launch labs of their own. The inaugural CEID Postdoctoral Scholars and their projects were:
- Lewis Bartlett — Emerging pathogens of honey bees
- Emlyn Resetarits — Nutrient cycling by parasites in a marshland ecosystem
- Elizabeth Warburton — Community structure in host-parasite assemblages
Financial support will provide funding for additional cohorts of this program, ensuring high-quality training for tomorrow’s leaders in the study of the ecology of infectious diseases.
