The Nevada System of Higher Education board of regents has approved the Global Water Center: Solutions for Sustainability at UNR.

The goal is to foster creative, interdisciplinary research aimed at answering critical questions related to water resource management and sustainability.

“The issues surrounding water resources, water quality and ecosystems aren’t just single-focus that can be solved by isolated scientific disciplines or individual scientists – they are multidimensional and need collaborative data-driven solutions,” Professor Sudeep Chandra said in a statement. He had been leading the formation of the new center.

Undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students will work on interdisciplinary research projects, which contributes to experiential learning and augments classroom instruction for specific disciplines.