The Charles Bullard fellowship program supports advanced research and study by individuals who show promise of making an important contribution to forestry and forest-related subjects including biology, earth sciences, economics, politics, administration, philosophy, humanities, the arts, or law.

Harvard Forest is pleased to announce the upcoming 2025-2026 Charles Bullard Fellows in Forest Research. Over the course of their fellowships, we'll

Keshia De Freece Lawrence, Harvard Forest’s Indigenous Education Specialist, is conducting research to investigate the decline of red-tailed hawks. Her work is inspired by years of observing an alarming number of dead hawks along roadsides. De Freece Lawrence, a member of the Ramapough Lenape tribe, combines her academic background with her Indigenous heritage to approach the issue holistically, viewing the

OCTOBER 2024 UPDATE: These projects are no longer accepting applications.

Applications are now open for 2 remote, part-time graduate student internships, open to enrolled Harvard graduate students in Fall 2024. 

• Remote graduate internship: Eastern Woodlands Raptor Ecology and Indigenous Forestry (application deadline: September 20 - note: this project is open for wintersession internship applications at https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/winternships)

• Remote graduate internship: K-12 Climate

With a 4,000-acre campus located on ancestral Nipmuc land¹, Harvard Forest was humbled to receive a Bullard Fellowship application from Cheryll Toney Holley, the sonksq (female leader) of the Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band². A respected historian, genealogist, and author, Toney Holley co-founded the Nipmuc Indian Development Corporation to assist in the revitalization of the Nipmuc community.