“Early in 2025, the School of the Environment awarded Investment Initiative grants to 12 Boise State faculty members. Julie Heath, professor of biological sciences and director of the Raptor Research Center, received one of these grants to support collaboration efforts outside the university.
The Investment Initiative helped establish BRIDGE (Biodiversity Research and International Development for Global Exchange), a program that connects Boise State’s Raptor Research Center with non-profit partners — like The Peregrine Fund and Hawkwatch International — and global partners in the United Arab Emirates. These collaborations help bring together an international community to address the science and conservation of raptors…”